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La sortie d' Isabelle vient d'echouer et c'est bien la fin. La fin de la guerre d'Indochine et de la puissance coloniale francaise. Pour la premiere fois dans l'histoire, une guerilla a defait l'un des grands sur un champ de bataille. La perte de Dien Bien Phu en 1954, dont le siege aura dure 167 jours, aura des consequences comparables a celles qui suivirent Waterloo, la Marne et Stalingrad. Comment en est-on arrive a cette situation desesperee a la veille de la conference de Geneve ? Minutieusement, Bernard Fall, apres avoir recueilli les temoignages des survivants des deux camps, interroge les acteurs essentiels de ce drame comme Ho Chi Minh et Giap a Hanoi, et obtenu du ministre francais des armees l'autorisation de consulter des documents de premiere importance encore tenus secrets, reconstitue la bataille. 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