Hi everybody, welcome to Dan's Snow's History Over. I'll be able to episode the difference

for you today. We're dropping in someone else's podcast, but it's because A it's really

good and B is because I'm on it, so it all makes sense. Go with it folks. It's a show

that I've been a fan of for a long time, but we didn't start the fire. So a history

podcast and Spide by the lyrics have really good ideas. It really annoys me. So Spide

by the lyrics of the Billie Joel song, we didn't start the fire. And if you remember, it

starts like Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red Shiner, Johnny Ray. It's a gallop through the

history of his life. And this podcast are going through it line by line with people explaining

what every single reference is such a good idea. The one I'm about to play is very special

because I talked to the great Katie Putgrich and Tom Fordice about the battle of DnBN

Fou, which is in 1954 in Vietnam, as you'll know, because you'll love history. It was the

nemesis of French empire and Asia. It was a catastrophic defeat for the French and ended

up with them leaving Southeast Asia. It also led to a downfall of the French government.

I mean, it's big, big repercussions. And if any place on earth really symbolises the

end of this era of European empire is probably DnBN Fou high in the hills of what is now

Northern Vietnam. It was really fun to record this. I've always been fascinated by this

story. I've been to Vietnam several times. I think it's a fascinating battlefield, a

fascinating story. I thought you might like to hear it too. And of course, go and check

out the other episodes if you want. Let's do my favour. They got everything from Einstein,

North Korea, Nixon, Catcher and the Rye. Obviously, just such. We didn't start the fire in

your podcast app until that following is subscribing and stuff. Anyway, here is, we didn't

start the fire with Katie Putgrich, Tom Fordice and me.

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