{"product_id":"the-road-to-dien-bien-phu-9780691228648","title":"The Road to Dien Bien Phu","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A thought-provoking reexamination of the recipe for Vietnam’s back-to-back victories against Western powers.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] zestfully granular history of the Vietminh war against the French.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew J. Nathan, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this important book, Christopher Goscha . . . offers new insight into a post-colonial struggle that emerged from the Second World War. . . . Goscha’s command of French, English, and Vietnamese sources is a great strength in drawing out this neglected history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tim Cook, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu, \u003c\/i\u003eGoscha tries to answer the question posed by Frantz Fanon, the Martiniquais psychiatrist who supported anti-colonial revolutions in Algeria and other parts of the world. ‘What must we do to realize a Dien Bien Phu? How do we go about doing it?’ Goscha details the recipe in a book of more than 500 pages—a recipe not duplicated in North Africa or any anti-colonial struggle outside Asia. . . . Like any great work of history, Christopher Goscha’s book resonates with connections to the present.\"\u003cb\u003e---Thomas A. Bass, \u003ci\u003eMekong Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eye-opening. . . . It is the best work in English, French, or Vietnamese on the First Indochina War as a whole.\"\u003cb\u003e---Shawn F. McHale, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The greatest merit of Christopher Goscha’s splendid history of the First Indochina War . . . is his unsparing devotion to letting facts inform his assessments and conclusions.\"\u003cb\u003e---Francis P. Sempa, \u003ci\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] thrillingly acute and serious piece of work.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rana Mitter, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] magisterial account.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Luhrssen, \u003ci\u003eShepherd Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the ingenuity and resourcefulness of ideologically driven authorities obstinately struggling to overcome technological, economic and other deficits with a view to satisfying aspirations that were, in the final analysis, as narrow as they were unshakable.\"\u003cb\u003e---Pierre Asselin, \u003ci\u003eHistory Today ​​​​​​​\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu \u003c\/i\u003ewill become a classic volume in the history of the Indochinese Wars standing alongside Bernard B. Fall’s \u003ci\u003eStreet Without Joy\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . Required reading for anyone studying the post-World War II era of Southeast Asian politics. Goscha has provided keen insight into the war through his travels and interviews in the region. \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the bookshelf of any historian studying this area of history or politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---David A. Mattingly, \u003ci\u003eInternational Social Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most important accounts of the First Indochina War to date. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu\u003c\/i\u003e] emphatically deserve[s] the attention of military historians of the Vietnam Wars and beyond.\"\u003cb\u003e---Justin Simundson, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magisterial. . . . Goscha’s work, along with Sean McHale’s \u003ci\u003eThe First Vietnam War,\u003c\/i\u003e fills a considerable void in the anglophone historiography of the First Indochina War from the perspective of the Vietnamese. It is a magnificent scholarly effort that will remain the standard text on its subject for years to come.\"\u003cb\u003e---Daniel R. Hart, \u003ci\u003eMichigan War Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n extensive and comprehensive account of the lesser-known First Indochina War. . . . There is much to commend in \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e---Seb Rumsby, \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To the growing literature on Vietnam during this crucial period, Christopher Goscha has added an illuminating study that is ambitious in scope, copious in detail, and original in interpretation. . . . A deeply satisfying work by a prolific scholar and masterful writer.\"\u003cb\u003e---Christian C. Lentz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Vietnamese Studies ​​​​​​​\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Road to Dien Bien Phu \u003c\/i\u003eis the best academic book yet written about the First Indochina War.\"\u003cb\u003e---Stein Tønnesson, \u003ci\u003eH-Diplo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling and well-written history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nathaniel L. Moir, \u003ci\u003eWar In History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403915501911,"sku":"9780691228648","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691228648.jpg?v=1730484876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-road-to-dien-bien-phu-9780691228648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}