Название: The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
Автор: Martin Windrow
Издательство: Cassell
ISBN: 0306813866
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 736
Размер: 5,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
In winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and légionnaires, with artillery and tanks, were flown to the remote valley of Dien Bien Phu to build a fortress upon which Giap could smash his inexperienced regiments. The siege which followed became a Stalingrad in the jungle, and its outcome shocked the world.