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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. - Back cover.
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. - Publisher.
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Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina
June 10, 2005, Stackpole Books
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Street Without Joy
January 13, 1972, Schocken
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Street without joy: insurgency in Indochina, 1946-63.
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"WAR came to Indochina in the wake of the crumbling of the European colonial empires in Asia during World War II."
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"Copyright renewed in 1989. New material copyright 1994. Published in paperback in 2005." - Title page verso.
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