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The Indo China War - The Most Brazen War of Decolonization
The battle of dm b m fu itself is pivotal to the story. I would invite perhapsr your listeners, if they have time, to take a look at the battlefield of danbinfu, covered with trenches. Guerrillas don't fight trench warfare. Why are their trenches? We all know that trenches were created at the beginning of the twentieth century with the introduction of artillery. When both sides were shooting artillery at each other, your soldiers have to dig into the ground, literally. And as some french generals remarked, were french officers remarked, after themin fout. This reminded him of what some of them had seen at verdon in france during the first world war.
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