Mark Molesky — co-author with me of Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France — reviews a new book about the French disaster at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam half a century ago, in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscribers only). Two interesting factoids: Dien Bien Phu translates as “big frontier administrative center” and half the Foreign Legion troops at the battle were German, including lots of “Wehrmacht veterans recruited from prisoner-of-war camps after World War II.”