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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

Fall, Bernard

Paperback

General World HistorySoutheast Asian HistoryVietnam War

ISBN10: 030681157X
ISBN13: 9780306811579
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Apr 18 2002
Pages: 568
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
From an acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle: the 1954 battle for Dien Bien Phu.

A thorough account of a brave, sanguinary battle that has since turned out to have immense historic importance. --New Yorker

Like Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu--a strategic attack launched by France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years of war--marked a historic turning point. By the end of the 56-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerrilla force had destroyed a large, tactical French colonial army in the heart of Southeast Asia.

The Vietnamese victory would not only end French occupation of Indochina and offer a sobering premonition of the U.S.'s future military defeat in the region, but would also provide a new model of modern warfare on which size and sophistication didn't always dictate victory.

Before his death in Vietnam in 1967, Bernard Fall, a critically acclaimed scholar and reporter, drew upon declassified documents from the French Defense Ministry and interviews with thousands of surviving French and Vietnamese soldiers to weave a compelling account of the key battle of Dien Bien Phu. With maps highlighting the strategic points of conflict, with thirty-two pages of photos, and with Fall's thorough and insightful analysis, Hell in a Very Small Place has become one of the benchmarks in war reportage.

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