Dien Bien Phu

Arthur Engel experienced the war in Indochina as a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion's 1er BEP, participating in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The author Terry Kajuko has captured his father's experiences in this novelistic biography. In addition to fascinating personal stories, this book, which includes over 250 photos and maps, explains numerous facts and backgrounds about the Indochina War, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and the French Foreign Legion. Trained as paratroopers in Algeria and shipped to Indochina, they found themselves in no ordinary war, but in a jungle war of the microcosm. A war without a coherent front. The operational area of an elite soldier, the paratrooper. In the north, on the border with Laos and not far from China, the best colonial troops descended from the sky in no time.