Book Discussion: Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

A multifaceted history of the First Indochina War from the outbreak of fighting in 1945 to the epic battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Ho Chi Minh's guerrilla fighters' defeat of French colonial might foreshadowed America’s later experience in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese fight for decolonization was a victory undreamed of by many other national liberation movements of the time, but at a cost of a million lives, mostly civilians.

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha is available in all formats at public libraries and bookstores. (437 pp)