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Published on: 2010-02-23
Released on: 2010-02-23
Original language: English

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history.A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement’s rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated.    Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come.    Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.  Footage Farm: Vietnam Vietnam Action Bien Hoa airbase from runway. Partially destroyed shed. Reporters & photographers inspect damage. Rubble CU boot bunk bed. Smoking debris. 20:00:36 ... Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence - American Rhetoric Full text and audio of King's declaration against the Vietnam war delivered April 4 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York ... Valley of Death - Wikipedia Valley of Death refers to any of the numerous landforms named Death Valley. Its origins possibly lie in a literary element of Psalm 23 in the Bible. Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam - lib.berkeley.edu Social Activism Sound Recording Project Martin Luther King "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" April 30 1967 Riverside Church New York Battle of Dien Bien Phu HistoryNet Fifty years ago the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh in one of the 20th century's most decisive battles. The Tet Offensive: the turning point in the Vietnam War ... In the early hours of 31 st January 1968 70000 North Vietnamese soldiers together with guerrilla fighters of the NLF launched one of the most daring military ... CHAPTER 28: The U.S. Army in Vietnam [619] CHAPTER 28 The U.S. Army in Vietnam The Vietnam War was the legacy of France's failure to suppress nationalist forces in Indochina as it struggled to restore ... Thoughts on Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam: A ... Thoughts on Martin Luther King's Speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" and its Applicability to the War on Iraq. Sunday 6 April 2003 VIETNAM WAR FILMS - Wellesley College The long way home project. Series I [DS558 .L66 2001] "Men versus myth" is a study of veterans of the Vietnam War and how their lives since the war belie the 'victim ... Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Din Bin Phu; Vietnamese: Chin dch in Bin Ph IPA: [n in fu] ) was the climactic ...
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