Describes the background, events, and aftermath of the fifty-five day battle at Dien Bien Phu, a village in North Vietnam, which claimed nearly ten thousand liv

Describes the historical background, events, and aftermath of the 1954 battle at Dien Bien Phu, which led to the end of the first Indochina War.

The French strategy of seeking to establish a fortified base across the Viet Minh's route to and from Laos provoked an awesome struggle that lasted from Novembe

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political sys