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100 1 $aRoy, Jules,$d1907-2000.
240 10 $aBataille de Dien Bien Phu.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe battle of Dienbienphu /$cJules Roy ; foreword by Ralph Wetterhahn ; introduction by Neil Sheehan.
250 $a2nd Carroll & Graf ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf,$c2002, ©1965.
300 $axxx, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map, portraits ;$c22 cm
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500 $aTranslation of: La bataille de Dien Bien Phu.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 320-335) and index.
520 1 $a"In March 1952, in the bloody battle at Dienbienphu, eighty years of French colonial rule in Vietnam came to an end. The French had vastly underestimated the resources and resolve of their Vietminh enemy and indeed committed "one of the biggest strategic blunders in history," as Jules Roy writes in his dramatically detailed and brilliantly argued volume, in "a war which was impossible to win."" "The victory of the Vietminh over their colonizers established Communist rule in North Vietnam. It also prompted America's attempt, two years later, to save South Vietnam from the nationalist northern forces of Ho Chi Minh. The French experience that culminated in the catastrophe at Dienbienphu, which is so vividly delineated in this chronicle, darkly foreshadows and in many ways explains America's own diplomatic missteps in Southeast Asia and the military tragedy in Vietnam."--Jacket.
505 0 $aForward by Ralph Wetterhahn -- Introduction by Neil Sheehan -- 1. The Birth of a Myth -- 2. The Trap -- 3. The Chamber Pot -- 4. The Match -- 5. The Twilight of the gods -- Requiem for The Battle of Dienbienphu -- Dramatis Personae of the Battle of Beinbienphu -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aDien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954.
651 0 $aĐiện Biên Phủ (Vietnam)
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