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Title: Still awaiting the definitive work on the topic
Review: I am surprised by all the five-star reviews of this book. Turner managed to convince me that this is an important and underreported side of the war, but we must still await the definitive work on the subject. This simply isn't it. It is full of interesting anecdotes, but was peculiarly unhelpful for me in putting my lecture notes together. It relies mostly on interviews done in the mid-1990s, but beyond these interesting stories there is not much hard information here. (How many women were at Dien Bien Phu? Who knows?) Turner's interjection of herself as a "character" should have been edited out a long time ago.
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