The Last Valley
Subtitle: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
Edition: Export Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: December 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 734
ISBN-13: 9780306813863
Subjects: Warfare & Defence; Military History - Post 1945; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; History; History - Military / War; Military; USA; Vietnam; Asia - Southeast Asia; Europe - France; Military - Other; Military - Vietnam War; Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, i; Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, £iãòen Biãen Phàu, Vietnam, 1954
First sentence: ON A CRISP, SUNNY WINTER'S day on a red earth hilltop in North Vietnam, a young Californian named Howard Simpson was reluctantly fishing around with borrowed chopsticks in a lunchtime bowl of pho soup, while trying to ignore the stench of torn-up corpses festooning the barbed wire a few yards away.