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Free Download Dien Bien Phu 1954: The French Defeat that Lured America into Vietnam (Campaign, 366) by Martin Windrow, Peter Dennis
English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 1472844009 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces, this iconic battle provided the climax of the First Indochina War.

Free Download Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu by John Pike
English | June 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1526789299 | 448 pages | EPUB | 9.70 Mb
A forensic study of Vietnam’s war, imperial history and international relations in the years following the Second World War.

Free Download Notes from Hampstead: The Writer’s Notes: 1954-1971 by Elias Canetti, John Hargraves
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0374530599 | 228 Pages | EPUB | 433.8 KB
Notes from Hampstead is a map to the late Nobel laureate’s thinking, a triumphant compendium of aphoristic, enigmatic, and expository writings covering a characteristically diverse range of subjects: the significance of mythology and ethnicity, the nature of creativity, the extraordinary hold violence has on the twentieth century, literary history (one learns of Canetti’s affection for Cervantes, Stendhal, and Gogol, and his adoration of Kafka), and, always, there is a fierce quarrel with death.