Ḥ· Chí Minh, 1890-1969.
Prison diary / Ho Chi Minh ; translated by Aileen Palmer.
Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962.
Ho Chi Minh was the founder of the Communist Party in Vietnam and was the
leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 1945 to his
death in 1969. His Prison Diary is a collection of poems written in a
Chinese jail where he had been imprisoned for eighteen months by Chiang Kai-shek
during World War II. Aileen Palmer, the daughter of the Melbourne left-wing
writers Vance and Nettie Palmer, translated the poems published in this edition.
