Dien Bien Phu is recognized as one of history's great battles. It began in November 1953, when French paratroopers seized a small airstrip in Northwestern Vietnam. It ended in May 1954 with tens of thousands of Vietminh troops overrunning the beseiged garrison. A third of the 15,000 French defenders died in combat, fewer than a hundred escaped into the jungle. Thousands more died in captivity. The fall of Dien Bien Phu led to the American commitment to Vietnam. Ironically, the US military repeated many of the French mistakes. Howard Simpson was at Dien Bien Phu as a combat reporter. His account is a personal one - that of a man who shared meals and wine and danger with the doomed soldiers. He is uniquely qualified to tell the story of this famous last stand.

Product Description: This thriller, set during the 1968 Tet offensive, takes the reader inside the troubled mind of a CIA operative as he decides whether to follow orders to murder his friend, a French double agent.

Reviews the history of the French paratroop units from World War II through the present (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This thriller by the acclaimed author of Dien Bien Phu transports the reader to Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive where a CIA agent is ordered to kill his longtime friend suspected of working for the North Vietnamese.

The author recounts his experiences in Vietnam, shares his impressions of the war, and discusses the politics of the region

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Product Description: GENSTAT is a general purpose statistical computing system with a flexible command language operating on a variety of data structures. It may be used on a number of computer ranges, either interactively for exploratory data analysis, or in batch mode for standard data analysis...read more

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