ChristiandeCastries was a French army officer who commanded during World War II and later in the Indochina War. Castries was born into a distinguished military family and enlisted in the army at the age of 19.
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A nurse, she tended to the wounded as the French were under fateful attack by Viet Minh forces in 1954. Hailed in France and the U.S., she was given a ticker-tape parade down Broadway.
Slzavé údolí Francie (Indočína) Autor: Milan Syruček ChristiandeCastries, velitel obležených francouzských jednotek v Dien Bien Phu, si oblékl čistou košili a