Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, (Paperback)

from hellbent

I have re read this book after 27 years and after a personal trip to the site of the battle. With greater maturity, I enjoyed the book much more with the second reading. The threat of Communism was perhaps less than the years of anti-colonial war that the Vietnamese people had to endure to finall...

from untraveller

Superb. One of the best books I've read this year. Comparable to The Great Siege b Ernle Bradford, it describes an horrific battle whose outcome changed the course of history. I'm not much into military tactics, but this book by B. Fall lays everything out in clear maps and prose with unbelievabl...

from DinadansFriend

A good writer, and a well researched book. it remains one of the classics of war reporting. It may have had some influence on whipping up enthusiasm for the Widening Vietnamese conflict when it was published.

from hellbent

I have re read this book after 27 years and after a personal trip to the site of the battle. With greater maturity, I enjoyed the book much more with the second reading. The threat of Communism was perhaps less than the years of anti-colonial war that the Vietnamese people had to endure to finall...

from untraveller

Superb. One of the best books I've read this year. Comparable to The Great Siege b Ernle Bradford, it describes an horrific battle whose outcome changed the course of history. I'm not much into military tactics, but this book by B. Fall lays everything out in clear maps and prose with unbelievabl...