Trần Bạch Đằng (born Truong Gia Trieu) (1926 – April 16, 2007) was a key figure in planning the 1968
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the force ...
during the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...
, and was the leader of Communist forces in
Saigon, the
South Vietnamese capital, during that offensive. He was the leading
Communist political officer in Saigon and a member of the
National Liberation Front Central Committee.
Đằng is the author of the novel
Ván bài lật ngửa, which was about an intelligence figure in the Vietnam War - Colonel
Phạm Ngọc Thảo
Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo (IPA: , ), also known as Albert Thảo (14 February 1922 – 17 July 1965), was a communist sleeper agent of the Việt Minh (and, later, of the Vietnam People's Army) who infiltrated the Army of the Republic of Viet ...
, under the pen name Nguyễn Trương Thiên Lý.
Biography
His real name is Trương Gia Triều. He was born on July 15, 1926 in Hòa Thuận commune,
Giồng Riềng District,
Rạch Giá (now
Kiên Giang province). He was one of the early students of Petrus Trương Vĩnh Ký High School (now
Lê Hồng Phong High School For The Gifted).
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Đằng started participating in military activities at the age of 17. In 1946, he was assigned to be in charge of the "Chống Xâm Lăng" newspaper of the Saigon Party Committee. In 1951, he worked as the editor-in-chief of the "Nhân dân Miền Nam" newspaper.
In 1976, he became a member of the Vietnam Writers Association.
Đằng died from lung cancer at the age of 81 - on April 16, 2007, at Cho Ray Hospital
Chợ Rẫy Hospital is the largest general hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and is also the largest national hospital in Vietnam, founded in 1900 during the French colonial rule as Hôpital Municipal de Cholon. Over the years, the hospital ...
.
References
External links
1989 pictureObituary
1926 births
2007 deaths
Communist Party of Vietnam politicians
Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War
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