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Cargando... Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam Warpor Ted Morgan
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bueno, si bien centrado en Dien Bien Phu es una historia de la primera guerra de indochina entre francia y el viet cong. Pero con un enorme trabajo de referencia hacia la politica internacional y la posición de Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, y en menor medida Rusia y China. Deprime ver como se pueden cometer tantos errores, desde donde ubicar a la base hasta subestimar al Viet Cong. Te muestra además a un Churchill ya decadente, y como para salvar el honor (sobre todo el de ellos) los politicos y los altos mandos terminan sacrificando vidas, sobre todo las ajenas ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina - and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history." "Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement's rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat - which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated." "Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that "no military victory was possible in that type of theater." Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)959.704142History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949- 1946-1954 Indochinese WarClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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