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Hell In A Very Small Place
The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu
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By Bernard Fall
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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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"A thorough account of a brave, sanguinary battle that has since turned out to have immense historic importance."--New Yorker
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"Achieves the closest possible synthesis of previous research and known documents with the personal, impartial, but profoundly human contribution of a good historian."--New York Times Book Review
- On Sale
- Apr 18, 2002
- Page Count
- 568 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780306811579
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