Dien Bien Phu: Hell Rains Down in the Land of Heaven

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Source/Further reading:

Dien Bien Phu Today – tourism and memory
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attract...
https://www.indochinatravelpackages.c...
https://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_1631-...
https://www.indochinatravelpackages.c...
The Battle
https://books.google.com/books/about/...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r... https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2...
http://foreignlegion.info/battle-of-d...
https://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...

Genevieve de Galard, the Angel nurse of Dien Bien Phu
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/...
German legionnaires at Dien Bien Phu:
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/...
Antonio, the Italian legionnaire
https://ricerca.gelocal.it/mattinopad... https://www.lanazione.it/arezzo/cultu...

Phan Thanh Tam. Viet Minh painter
https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre...
https://vietnamtheartofwar.com/1932/0...