Dien Bien Phu: The Forgotten Epic Battle in American War History - Perfect for Military History Buffs & Vietnam War Studies

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The author's physical presence at the site, plus his post war interviews added so much to reconstructing what both sides planned and executed. The description of the international composition of the French forces was surprising. Germans, French colonial units from Algieria, the Foreign Legion. The extreme struggle of a dwindling colonial power to retain their overseas holdings was told with insight seldom found in the literature. And the author's writing style was superb, making it difficult to put the book down. I put this on the shelf of my "ten best" reads, of all time. Kudos to Howard Spencer.