On Fall’s Hell in a Very Small Place, A Frenchman’s Viewpoint

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08/08/2014 Left and Right Marvin E. Gettleman

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Marvin E. Gettleman reviews the late Bernard B. Fall’s Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, and his account of French forces in Vietnam.

Volume 3, Number 3 (Spring-Autumn 1967)

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Gettleman, Marvin E. “On Fall’s Hell in a Very Small Place, A Frenchman’s Viewpoint.” Left and Right 3, No. 3 (Spring-Autumn 1967): 70-72.

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08/08/2014 Left and Right Marvin E. Gettleman

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