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The road to Dien Bien Phu : a history of the first war for Vietnam / Christopher Goscha.

by Goscha, Christopher E., author.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Communism -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century.

Decolonization -- Vietnam -- History.

Vietnam -- History, Military.

9780691180168 (hardcover) :

0691180164 (hardcover) :

xi, 15 unnumbered pages, 514 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Introduction: states of war -- The rise of the archipelago state -- Building military force -- The Asian routes of war -- The city at war -- Wiring war -- Policing war -- Trickle economics -- The Levée en masse and war communism -- Of rice and war -- The road to Dien Bien Phu -- Imperial dust: Ho Chi Minh's Associated States of Indochina -- Dien Bien Phu: the changing of Heaven and Earth.

"On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army... Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today."-- Publisher.

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