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Chargement... Street Without Joy - Insurgency in Indochina, 1946-1963. Foreword by Marshall Andrews (1961)par Bernard B. Fall
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Bernard Fall was a Jewish refugee into France from Austria in 1938. Losing both his parents to the gestapo in WWii, Fall, a resistance fighter ended WWii in the Ftrench Army. He then gained his PHD while writing this in-the-field account of the Indo Chinese war 1646 - 54. He correctly predicted the French collapse there. Returning to the USA, he combined University teaching with War Corresponding in thr 1950's and 1960's. This book was a success at the time. A keen critic of American involvmewnt in the Vietnam War, he was killed by a land mine in 1967 in Vietnam. ( ) Military history of the French defeat in Indochina, written when American involvement was just beginning to ramp up. If you want to learn about a pointless, painful, and slow defeat, driven by French imperialist assumptions and indifference to the question of whether anybody actually wanted the French in control, this book tells that story, with plenty of grim details as the deaths mount in fives and tens, day in and day out. The seeds of the subsequent American defeat were also there, and as apparent to Fall in prospect as they are in restrospect. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes. Wikipédia en anglais (28)In this classic account of the French war in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954. The French fought well to the last, but even with the lethal advantages of airpower, they could not stave off the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists, who countered with a hit-and-run campaign of ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. Defeat came at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, setting the stage for American involvement and opening another tragic chapter in Vietnam's history. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)959.7041History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949- 1946-1954 Indochinese WarClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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