Jean Lacouture is a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. And for him, that is enough. But since his arrival at Harvard from Paris six weeks ago, reporters, pacifists, Radcliffe ...

HO CHI MINH: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Jean Lacouture. 313 pages. Random House. $5.95. For most of his career, Ho Chi Minh has been playing a kind of political character part: power disguised as ...

The Vietnamese war has become so complex that a critical understanding of the situation and its possible solutions is impossible without extensive research. Jean Lacouture's book, Vietnam: Between Two ...

Jean Lacouture, who has died aged 94, was a journalist, historian and prolific biographer, who composed lives of many of the most outstanding figures in French literary and political life. In a long ...

Angkor : the serenity of Buddhism / Marc Riboud ; introduction by Jean Lacouture, with essays by Jean Boisselier and Marc Riboud ; photograph captions by Madeleine Giteau ; [translated from the French ...

Journalist and writer Jean Lacouture recalls hearing BBC broadcasts made by French resistance leader General de Gaulle during the Nazi occupation of France. "Bordeaux was a city of despair...de Gaulle ...