The Red Napoleon is a novel

Novel

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 by Floyd Gibbons

Floyd Gibbons

Floyd Phillips Gibbons was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporter and commentators he was famous for a fast talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke.Gibbons started with the Tribune...

 published in 1929

1929 in literature

The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Candide by Voltaire is declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930....

 predicting a Soviet conquest of Europe

Europe

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 and invasion of America

United States

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. The novel contains strong racial overtones such as the yellow peril

Yellow Peril

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. The Red Napoleon was written in 1929 and projects the next few years. In it, Stalin is killed by an assassin in 1932. A Red Army

Red Army

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 leader takes over and starts a massive military buildup. In 1933 the Red Army invades Poland

Poland

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Ironically a June 17, 1966 article in Time magazine labelled Vo Nguyen Giap

Vo Nguyen Giap

Võ Nguyên Giáp is a retired Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People’s Army and a politician. He was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War...

 "The Red Napoleon". While considered a military genius and both a yellow man and a "mongoloid", Giap was hardly the world conqueror imagined in the novel. http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,899210,00.html http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050501/ai_n14621945