Hữu Mai (7 May 1926 – 2007)Hữu Mai's obituary
was a

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overse ...

writer. He was born in

Thanh Hóa Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh ...

and wrote the memoirs of

Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp (; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general and communist politician who is regarded as having been one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century. He served as interior minister in President H ...

.Dorothy Fall, ''Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-scholar'' 2006 – Page 261 "I ran into Time correspondent Tim Larimer, who said that he knew someone who wrote for General Giap, Huu Mai, one of the best-known writers in Vietnam. Tim spoke to Huu Mai, who then called me. He told me that he had read all of Bernard's books. He said that General Giap, his friend for forty years, had visited his home the previous weekend. He would call him. Soon Huu Mai phoned and said the general would see me".

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