The national archives on the Dien Bien Phu campaign and the Geneva Conference in 1954 have been made public for the first time on the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory and the signing of ...

A legendary journalist’s account of his meeting with President Ho Chi Minh about the battle that ended French colonialism. from Wilfred Burchett, North of the 17th Parallel, 1955 A sun-helmet lay on ...

Thousands of people have been paying visits to Dien Bien Phu City to commemorate the Dien Bien Phu Victory, a prominent triumph during the country’s resistance war against French colonialists. Since ...

Dien Bien Phu: three words that in France are still synonymous with a symbolic defeat. On 7 May 1954, after 57 days and nights of fierce fighting between Viet Minh troops and members of the French ...

Long ReadOf the women present at the camp during the major French defeat of the Indochina War in March 1954, official history has only remembered one: Geneviève de Galard, a nurse. Despite their ...

Veterans watch a parade commemorating the victory of Dien Bien Phu battle in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, on May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated ...

Captured French soldiers, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp in Dien Bien Phu. (Wikimedia Commons) Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great ...

A French nurse dubbed the “angel of Dien Bien Phu” for her care of wounded and dying soldiers during the Indochina war in the 1950s has died at the age of 99. Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated ...

Amid numerous ceremonies in France this year marking the centenary of WWI and the 70th anniversary of D-day, another war milestone is being conveniently overlooked: the Viet Minh's defeat of French ...

‘And this,’ our guide said, ‘is where Colonel Piroth committed suicide.’ We were standing by a fenced-off scrap of wasteland on the edge of a busy market. The only evidence that anything of ...

At first encounter, Guillaume Richard found himself engrossed in Tran Quynh Anh's talk about the history of Dien Bien Phu Battle and her family traditions, while Quynh Anh admired his grandparents’ ...

Paris (AFP) – Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" for treating wounded during a defining 1954 battle in then French Indochina, has died aged 99, with President Emmanuel ...