Three veterans have visited Dien Bien Phu City from France to relive the memories in which French soldiers fought and were defeated by Vietnamese troops in the summer of 1954. Returning to the city in ...
Moments of the Dien Bien Phu battle, in which the Vietnamese defeated the French to reclaim an important valley, were captured by many photojournalists 70 years ago. The Communist Party's Politburo ...
May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War. By Ted Morgan. Random House; 752 pages; $35. Presidio Press; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk DIEN BIEN PHU ...
It is a curiosity of history that the French lost control of Dien Bien Phu, in the northwest corner of Vietnam, two years before the famous 1954 battle there that spelled the end of French colonial ...
On March 12, 1954, the day before Vietnamese nationalist forces attacked the French military base at Dien Bien Phu, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap proclaimed, "It is not Dien Bien Phu or Hanoi, ...