Moments of the Dien Bien Phu battle, in which the Vietnamese defeated the French to reclaim an important valley, were captured by many photojournalists 70 years ago. The Communist Party's Politburo ...

Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina. The ...

In 1953, eight years after reinvading Indochina, despite having mobilised huge economic and military resources, the French colonialists failed to achieve their purpose of destroying the revolutionary ...

Seventy photos of the Dien Bien Phu Victory by photographer Trieu Dai have been introduced to the public at the exhibition 'Photographic Epic of Dien Bien Phu'. The only set of war photos taken from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...