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The Battle of Dienbienphu

Door Jules Roy e.a.

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#379227-UA20
Titel	The Battle of Dienbienphu
Auteur	Roy, Jules & Ralph Wetterhahn
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0786709588
ISBN13	9780786709588
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with some photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Forty years ago, France's war with the anticolonial Communist-led Vietminh insurgency climaxed in the bloody battle for the valley of Dienbienphu. The Vietminh's victory put the 17 million people of North Vietnam under Communist rule and would, in two years, induce America's attempt to save South Vietnam? without heeding the French army's catastrophic defeat. That defeat, former French soldier Jules Roy explains, occurred not because of a shortage of arms or troops, but more important, less tangible reasons. Hungry for a textbook victory, the French military command occupied the valley in a plan to lure the Vietminh down from the hills to destroy them with supposedly superior artillery. Roy vividly shows how French political infighting in Paris and rivalry in the high command left a few ro... (Lees verder)mantic professional officers and soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps and the Foreign Legion to be surrounded and then overwhelmed by totally dedicated and resourceful enemy forces. Roy also profiles Vietminh soldiers and commanders and how they ended over eighty years of French colonial rule in North Vietnam. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to a "moving and dramatic" (New York Times Book Review) account of the battle that led to America's involvement the Vietnam War.
Pagina's	335
Conditie	Goed — Black permanent market line on bottom cut.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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