Some time back, after sharing the Armas review of Bernard Fall’s 1961 “Street Without Joy,” on the French war in Indochina, a much smarter and vastly more eminent Armas reader counseled me to also read Fall’s 1966 “Hell in a Very Small Place,” his work on the 1953-1954 battle of Điện Biên Phủ. I initially demurred, on the grounds that I had rece…
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