BATTLE OF INDOCHINA . As General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi’s Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the ...

In Australia itself, coverage of the anniversary was typified by an ABC feature that gloated “How 100 Australians held off 2,000 Viet Cong” and hailed the battle as a “decisive victory.” ...

It is neither Hanoi’s mistreatment of South Vietnam’s legacy nor its subservience to China that explains why Hanoi has been reluctant to allow public-wide commemoration of the 1974 battle. To ...

Ian F.W. Beckett reviews “The Allure of Battle: ... It calls to mind the exchange between the American military theorist Harry Summers and a North Vietnamese colonel in Hanoi in 1975.