About this title: "The definitive account" (Saturday Review) of the battle that paved the way for American involvement in Vietnam . The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambitions), what it foretold (American involvement), and what it symbolized: A guerrilla force of Viet Minh destroyed a technologically superior ...
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Description: Good. 030681157X Book could have a shelf wear, or a bump, or sunfade to edges. These are new unread books from the publisher with one of these conditions. See are feedback as customers are satisfied in how we grade our books. Has remainder mark. Fast shipping and customer service is our number 1 priority! read more
Description: 515pp. paperback 8vo: Good [text is age browned; ink name of Naval Academy midshipman; minimal underlining in text; else a complete & tight copy] A classic of the long Vietnam War by the Austrian born American expert on Indochina Bernard Fall (1926-67). Cover praise from Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, et al. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Binding is tight and page are clean. No marking or writing noted in book. Book is full bound black clothe with red gilt lettering on the spine. Boards are straight with bumps to corners. 515 pages. read more
Edition: Book Club
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1966
Description: Fair to good. 515 pages with 32 pages of b/w photographs & 30 maps. The defeat of the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu told by this acclaimed journalist and scholar. Hardcover with jacket. Jacket has edge wear, previous owners signature at front, first 50 pages have scattered highlighting. 9.45 by 6.5 inches. read more
Edition: Book Club
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia:
Date Published: 1966.
Description: 0516 pages with 32 pages of b/w photographs & 30 maps. The defeat of the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu told by this acclaimed journalist and scholar. Hardcover with jacket. Jacket has major wear with chips and closed tears. 8vo. read more
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, New York
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9781568659152ISBN:1568659156
Description: b&w photo illus. Good/ Good. 515, Orange w/ white title at spine. Some shelf wear. Pages yellowing from age, Few tears and creases along edges. read more
"The standard of how modern military reportage should be written. A book that some translations lack the punch of the original in French and further lose a bit of the flow, still is better than any other work of the period and is the equal or better any other coverage of a battle.
Bernard Fall's almost sparse prose details the evolution of the modern post WWII battlefield through the events of one engagement that effectively ended French involvement in Viet-Nam. The reader also meets for the first time in journalism/literature the seminal genius of the SE Asian wars, General Giap.
If you can find and read this in parallel with a copy in the original language you will be stunned by the foresight the author brings to the table about what the United States would ultimately face, and themselves not understand or effectively deal with on the battle field.
I try to reread this every 5 years or so to keep it fresh in my mind, and each time I find a new detail or understand more . A twenty five year acquaintance with this book and Fall's other masterpiece, Street Without Joy continue to yield new reasons to read Fall's work."
"According to Michael Herr, author of the popular Dispatches, Fall's account of French defeat at Dien Bien Phu a decade earlier became the secret cult classic text among reporters and some officers for understanding the fate awaiting American mission in Vietnam. Fall, a victim of the war he covered through two decades, was French himself, and in addition to heroically detailed account of the battle -- strategies, stories of individual acts of doomed bravery -- provides insight into same element of national arrogance that came to plague American leaders only ten years later. Though US forces never lost a DBP-type battle (siege of Khe San was thought by some at the time to be an incipient DBP), the French defeat became a kind of metaphorical blue print for American disaster.
Ironic that the two most insightful works on America's tragic folly in Vietnam -- Fall's book and Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American -- were written by foreigners well before the fall of Saigon (in Greene's case, years earlier!) Sadly, these two books complement each other all too well."
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