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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
by Windrow, Martin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0306813866
- ISBN 13
- 9780306813863
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2004. 608pp, 21 maps, glossary, picture captions, preface, 40 b&w photos, notes and sources, select bibliography, n December 1953 the French army occupying Vietnam challenged the elusive Vietnamese army to engage in a decisive battle. When French paratroopers landed in the jungle on the border between Vietnam and Laos, the Vietnamese quickly isolated the French force and besieged it in a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The hunters -- the French army -- had become the hunted, desperately defending their outgunned base. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005240
- Title
- The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
- Author
- Windrow, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0306813866
- ISBN 13
- 9780306813863
- Publisher
- Da Capo Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- VIETNAM DIEN BIEN PHU FRENCH ARMY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vietnam/Vietnam War;
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