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

Fall, Bernard B.

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002

030681157X / 9780306811579

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xii, [8], 515, [9] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendices [including The Order of Battle, The Role of Airpower, and French Military Abbreviations]. Bibliography. Index. The cover has some wear and soiling. Some marks on pages noted. Previous owner's stamp inside the front cover. A stunning piece of reportage, the story of the ill-fated French expedition to Dien Bien Phu. Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. He started fighting for the French Resistance at the age of sixteen, and later the French Army during World War II. In 1950 he first came to the United States for graduate studies at Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Howard University for most of his career and made regular trips to Southeast Asia to learn about changes and the societies. He predicted the failures of France and the United States in the wars in Vietnam because of their tactics and lack of understanding of the societies. He was killed by a landmine while accompanying United States Marines on a patrol in 1967. The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambitions), what it foretold (American involvement), and what it symbolized: A guerrilla force of Viet Minh destroyed a technologically superior French army, convincing the Viet Minh that similar tactics might prevail in battle with the U.S. 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 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. Offered by the author as a cautionary tale, the French-American journalist's hard lesson was largely ignored, to the American military's ultimate mortification. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations underway at Geneva among several nations over the future of Indochina. A thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle--the 1954 battle for Dien Bien Phu. 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. Second Da Capo Press edition [stated]. Later printing.…

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Titel
Hell in a Very Small Place; The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Autor
Fall, Bernard B.
Verlag
Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
Zustand
Good
Einband
Trade paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
030681157X
ISBN-13
9780306811579
Auflage
2. Auflage
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Indochina, Insurgency

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