“The only pitched battle to be lost by a European army in the history of decolonisation.” That was how historian Jean-Pierre Rioux described the French Indochina War. At the latest stage of the war, battle of Dien Bien Phu located at a remote mountain valley in northwestern Vietnam. The Vietnamese brought down one of the […] The post French Indochina War and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu: How Vietnam Ended France’s Colonial Empire appeared first on .