What a spectacle America at war presents to the world. A former president, red-faced, bawls his rage at Fox News' Chris Wallace, who had asked why he had not shut down bin Laden and Co. in the seven ...

In March 1954, French troops were in northern Vietnam for what commanders thought would be a decisive blow against the Viet Minh. By May, after weeks of brutal fighting, French forces surrendered, ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Morgan (Reds) synergizes a comprehensive spectrum of overlooked sources in this magisterial analysis of the 1954 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu and its consequences. The ...

Sources: Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Da Capo Press, 1966. Letters home from Italian volunteer in the French Foreign Legion Karnow, Stanley. "The Light at ...

HANOI, Indochina -- The French fortress of Dien Bien Phu fell to overwhelming hordes of Communist Viet Minn attackers today, ending a 57-day siege. The end of the gallant defense against overwhelming ...

Diên Biên Phu (Vietnam) (AFP) – A crowd of more than 10,000 people including war veterans and dignitaries gathered Tuesday in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle that ...

An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the ...

, the French Northern Command called it a “hole-in-the-ground,” and asserted, “Dien Bien Phu is not a strategic sector. and partly in hopes that the enemy could be drawn into a large set-piece battle ...

‘And this,’ our guide said, ‘is where Colonel Piroth committed suicide.’ We were standing by a fenced-off scrap of wasteland on the edge of a busy market. The only evidence that anything of ...

Diên Biên Phu (Vietnam) (AFP) – War veterans, soldiers and dignitaries will gather in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle that ultimately brought to an end ...