![]() ![]() The events of 1914-18 provided an entirely new touchstone, and 1940-44 essentially buried 1870 forever. Before 1914, the Franco-Prussian War was a ubiquitous psychological phantom for the entire French Republic. Those places are probably now taken by 9/11 and Iraq/Afghanistan. When I was growing up, Pearl Harbor and Vietnam were instant points of connection with anyone you might meet, regardless of their education or experience. In my lifetime I’ve witnessed the passing of many historical episodes into the relevance attic that marks the transition of collective consciousness to something no longer shared by large part of society. If you went to the guy next door and asked him to tell you what Dien Bien Phu was or you’d shoot him, you’d already be in jail. But my mailbox presented me with MMP’s Storm Over Dien Bien Phu as well as Legion Wargames’ Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble in the same month last fall. Unless that subject is zombies, in which case there were two games released each day last week. It isn’t often that two games on the same subject get released in the same month.
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