Dien Bien Phu Tucker-Jones Anthony
Dien Bien Phu Tucker-Jones Anthony When the world held its breath ... It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of…
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Dien Bien Phu Tucker-Jones Anthony
When the world held its breath ... It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe--with the brutal Greek Civil War. It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old.
In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was French Indochina ... The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. At the end of the Second World War France sought to reassert its military prestige, but instead suffered humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in French colonial Indochina.
The First Indochina war became a textbook example of how not to conduct counterinsurgency warfare against nationalist guerrillas. Anthony Tucker-Jones guides the reader through this decisive conflict with a concise text and
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