Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Fall BernardPaperback
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Fall BernardPaperback From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long…
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Fall BernardPaperback
From the 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 PhuLike 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. 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 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.