Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series)
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- Synopsis
- This book is one of a handful of truly classic accounts of the wars in Indochina. Originally published in 1961, just as the Kennedy administration was escalating the war in Vietnam, it attracted little initial notice in the United States. By 1967, however, when the United States was engaged in full-scale war and the author himself had been killed reporting combat in the very area he had written about, it had become standard reading for the U.S. officer corps in Vietnam. It remains today perhaps the best English account of France’s frustrating and ultimately unsuccessful effort to subdue the Vietminh insurgency. The author came naturally by his chosen profession as a student of war. He grew up in France against the backdrop of World War II, lost both parents in that conflict, and by his own recollection experienced his “first whiff of war” at age twelve. As a teenager, he joined the resistance, and he fought with the Allies in the liberation of France and the drive toward Berlin. This book remains not only a splendid account of a conflict often forgotten in the aftermath of America’s war in Vietnam, but it also speaks directly to a debate that continues to rage among military experts on the nature of the two wars in Indochina and the proper ways to fight them.
- Copyright:
- 1989
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 416 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811732369
- Publisher:
- Stackpole Books
- Date of Addition:
- 04/21/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Bernard B. Fall, Dorothy Fall
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- George C. Herring