Geneviève de Galard, a French air force nurse in ... Marcel Bigeard in besieged Dien Bein Phu when she was made part of the Foreign Legion. She found him and uncorked a bottle of champagne.

French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the Viet Minh Communist guerrilla if he concentrated his forces at the valley of Dien Bien Phu, an isolated location deep into enemy ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The French had tried to block a communist supply line and set up ...