Overview

""The definitive account"" (Saturday Review) of the battle that paved the way for American involvement in Vietnam . 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.

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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 A thorough account of a brave, sanguinary battle that has since turned out to have immense historic importance. --New Yorker

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Bernard B. Fall was forty when he was killed in South Vietnam in 1967. The author of the classic Vietnam account, Street Without Joy, he wrote for the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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