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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552312 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 29, 2022
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu 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. Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of 'War Communism.' Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians. Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552312 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 29, 2022
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu 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. Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of 'War Communism.' Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians. Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today.