Dien Bien Phu The Epic Battle America Forgot

Name: Dien Bien Phu The Epic Battle America Forgot
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ISBN: 9780028810478

ISBN-10: 0028810473

ISBN-13: 9780028810478

Edition: 1994

Authors: Howard R. Simpson

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"The fighting began in November 1953, when French paratroopers seized a small airstrip in northwestern Vietnam. It ended in May 1954 with tens of thousands of Vietminh troops overrunning the besieged garrison. A third of the 15,000 defenders died in combat; fewer than a hundred escaped into the jungle. Thousands more died in captivity." "Dien Bien Phu is recognized as one of history's great battles and as a turning point for American policy: the French defeat led to the fateful U.S. commitment to Vietnam. Ironically, the U.S. military repeated many of the French mistakes. American Howard R. Simpson was there as a combat reporter and photographer. His account is a personal one - that of a…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English