Hell in a Very Small Place
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Hell in a Very Small Place
| Full title | Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu |
|---|---|
| Author | Bernard B. Fall |
| Published | 1966 |
| Pages | 515 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Bernard Fall’s day-by-day account of the 1954 siege of Dien Bien Phu that ended French Indochina — the classic study of a plan that was wrong in its first assumption and could not be corrected afterwards, by a scholar who had walked the ground and was killed in Vietnam three years after publication. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- War — the subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.