Title: A fine introduction to the battle of Dien Bien Phu
Product review: This is probabaly the best book you can find of the battle of Dien Bien Phu if you want to have a complete picture of that important struggle of 1953-54, without spending many days studying the massive and more authoritative volumes of Fall and Windrow. The author has personal knowledge of the Indochina and knew most of the protagonists by first hand. He also had the chance to interview General Giap in 1991 and also to study the archives of the French Army and the French Foreign Legion. The story flows like a novel, the details are excellent and not at all boring and the suspence excellent although you know the end. The only drawback is the absence of detailed maps with olny two of them to show the whole of Indochina in 1954 and the French strongpoints in the Dien Bien Phu valley. The author has included instead some nice b/w photos which are very useful fot younger readers to catch the spirit of the era.
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