| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (19hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Great battles of history series.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Robertson Dean. |
| Summary |
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. By the end of the fifty-six-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerrilla force had destroyed a large, tactical French colonial army in the heart of Southeast Asia. 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 in which size and sophistication didn't always dictate victory. 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. With Fall's thorough and insightful analysis, Hell in a Very Small Place has become one of the benchmarks in war reportage. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Communism -- Vietnam.
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French in Indochina.
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Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam, 1954.
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Vietnam -- History.
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| Added Author |
Dean, Robertson.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781515990932 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1515990931 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11707521 |
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