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ColdWar
decolonization
Dien Bien Phu
end of empire
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French colonial defeat
French Indochina war
historic siege
humanism
imperialism
independence
Indochina war history books
resistance
sketches
trenches
unique Viet Minh memoir
victory
Vietnam war books non-fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781916346369
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 216 x 140mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Asia Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Phạm Thanh Tâm (1932–2019) was a prominent war correspondent and artist. Born in Haiphong, at the age of fifteen he joined the League for the Independence of Vietnam or Viet Minh. During the First Indochina War (1946–1954), he was a war reporter and artist at the historic battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial rule in Indochina. After the war, he joined Nhân Dân (The People), the communist party newspaper, and continued his art studies at the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts, graduating in 1962. He was a war correspondent and artist during the Vietnam War (1964–1975) and the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979). He retired from the People’s Army with the rank of colonel. His drawings are in several museum collections including the British Museum and the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum.
