THE ROAD TO DIEN BIEN PHU: A History of the First War for Vietnam

Tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army. Transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the U.S. would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today. 24 pages of photos.