| The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam Contributor(s): Windrow, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306814439 ISBN-13: 9780306814433 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $30.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: In December 1953, the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in battle at Dien Bien Phu. The story of how the siege in the jungle wore on until the French were depleted, demoralized, and destroyed is meticulously researched for this volume. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Asia - Southeast Asia - History | Europe - France |
| Dewey: 959.704 |
| LCCN: 2004063500 |
| Physical Information: 1.88" H x 6.44" W x 8.84" (2.17 lbs) 752 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French force and confronted them at their jungle base in a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The hunters-the French army-had become the hunted, desperately defending their out-gunned base. The siege in the jungle wore on as defeat loomed for the French. Eventually the French were depleted, demoralized, and destroyed. As they withdrew, the country was ominously divided at U.S. insistence, creating the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam for which 55,000 Americans would die in the next twenty years. |