From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, 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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, 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
