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Bernard B. Fall

    Bernard B. Fall fut un correspondant de guerre et historien éminent, spécialisé dans l'Indochine du milieu du XXe siècle. Possédant une profonde compréhension des sociétés locales et un regard critique sur les tactiques militaires, il a pressenti les échecs de la France et des États-Unis dans les guerres du Vietnam. Son œuvre se caractérise par une approche analytique pointue, motivée par le désir de comprendre les forces politiques et sociales complexes qui façonnent la région. Le dévouement de Fall à la vérité et sa présence sur le front ont solidifié son héritage en tant qu'observateur essentiel de la guerre moderne.

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    Street Without Joy
    Hell In A Very Small Place
    • Hell In A Very Small Place

      • 568pages
      • 20 heures de lecture
      4,3(2000)Évaluer

      The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambitions), what it foretold (American involvement), and what it symbolized: A guerrilla force of Viet Minh destroyed a technologically superior French army, convincing the Viet Minh that similar tactics might prevail in battle with the U.S.

      Hell In A Very Small Place
    • Street Without Joy

      The French Debacle in Indochina

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      4,2(1794)Évaluer

      - Reprint of an all-time classic on the Vietnam War Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina War, the savage eight-year conflict-ending in 1954 after the fall of Dien Bien Phu-in which French forces suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists. With its frontline perspective, vivid reporting, and careful analysis, Street without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic.

      Street Without Joy