Operation Adolphe Explained

Conflict:	Operation Adolphe
Partof:	the First Indochina War
Date:	March 29 – April 3, 1953^[1]
Place:	French Indochina
Combatant1:	French Union France State of Vietnam
Combatant2:	Viet Minh
Commander1:	Jean Brechignac Marcel Bigeard

Operation Adolphe (also referred to as Adolph) a military operation by the French Army that took place during the First Indochina War, commencing in April 1953. It was the last of several operations that spring, concluding before the monsoon season made campaigning difficult until the commencement of Operation Camargue in July.^[2]

References

Printed

• Book: Hammer, Ellen Joy. The struggle for Indochina. 1954. Stanford University Press.
• Book: Buttinger, Joseph. A dragon defiant: a short history of Vietnam. registration. 1972. Praeger.
• Book: Fall, Bernard B.. Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu. registration. 1967. Lippincott.
• Book: Kedward, Rod. La vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900. 2006. Penguin. 978-0-14-013095-9.
• Book: Roy, Jules. The battle of Dienbienphu. 1963. Pyramid Books.
• Book: Windrow, Martin. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. 2005-12-26. Da Capo Press. 978-0-306-81443-3.
• Book: Fall, Bernard B.. Street without joy. 1994. Stackpole Books. 978-0-8117-1700-7.
• Book: Devillers. Philippe. Lacouture. Jean. End of a war; Indochina, 1954. registration. 1969. Praeger.
• Book: Fall, Bernard B.. The two Viet-Nams: a political and military analysis. 1963. Praeger.
• Singer, B. (2004). Cultured force: Makers and defenders of the french colonial empire. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Notes and References

1. Singer (2004), p. 288
2. Book: New Statesman: the week-end review. 1953-01-01.