Dans le cadre des activites marquant la 65e commemoration de la victoire de
Dien Bien Phu (1954-2019), une equipe du studio Lotus-Film d'Algerie est alleeau Vietnam pour faire un film documentaire sur
Dien Bien Phu d'antan et d'aujourd'hui et se procurer davantage de documents destines a la realisation d'un film sur les mutations au Vietnam.
In October 2014, his groundbreaking article on the topic of Viet Minh artillery at
Dien Bien Phu was published in the Journal of Military History, and won the Society of Military History's Moncado Prize in 2015.
Accounts of the Viet Minh's invasion of Laos and of the battle for
Dien Bien Phu are as fresh and interesting as if they occurred yesterday.
Caption: French machine gun posts guard a road during the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in March 1954.
The Last Valley:
Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
No one accused President Dwight Eisenhower of isolationism when he accepted a stalemate in the Korean War, refused to intervene at
Dien Bien Phu, resisted recommendations from senior military officers regarding islands near Taiwan, watched the Red Army invade Hungary, or refused to back allies in the Suez Canal crisis.
A small sample of other first-rate accounts of close combat and the reactions of warriors are commended--from WW I: Graves, Goodbye to All That, a memoir; Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel constantly in print since 1929; and from WW II: Sledge, With the Old Breed; Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here; Masters, The Road Past Mandalay; Fussell, The Boys' Crusade; from the French war in Indo-China: Grauwin, Doctor at
Dien Bien Phu, and from the American war in Vietnam: Nolen, Ripcord.
As a chief aide to Ho Chi Minh, Giap was credited with defeating French forces at the decisive battle of
Dien Bien Phu in 1954, crippling France's bid to continue its colonial rule in Indochina after World War II.
And despite heavy and painful losses, Vietnam prevailed, defeating the first colonial quest at the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the second at Ho ChE[degrees] Minh Campaign in 1975.