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How Dien Bien Phu Led to America’s War in Vietnam

IN THE TRENCHES

In 1953, a hard fought battle between French and Vietnamese forces finished off France as a colonial power and eerily presaged the fate of the US in Vietnam a decade later.

James A. Warren
James A. Warren
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