DIEN BIEN PHU 1954
DIEN BIEN PHU 1954

DIEN BIEN PHU 1954

L20190183
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The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, fought from 13 March to 7 May 1954, was the last battle of the Indochina War. It was also the longest engagement of the conflict and one of the bloodiest.

 

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Around 8,000 Viet Minh soldiers were killed, along with 2,293 soldiers of the French army, which also lost 11,721 prisoners, of whom only 3,290 would return from the prison camps. The fortified camp at Điện Biên Phủ could not withstand the assaults of General Giap's Viet Minh army. This decisive defeat sounded the death knell for the French presence in Indochina. In July 1954, following the Geneva Accords, Vietnam was divided in two and the French withdrew from Tonkin, which had become North Vietnam.

A chapter is dedicated to visiting the war remnants of the battle.

Format 21 x 29.7 cm

Author 1
Nicolas Pontic
Publication date
September 2019
Pages
96
Illustrations
Over 160 illustrations, maps and profiles, including 150 photographs
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
YSEC EDITIONS
EAN
9782846733250

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