Bibliograph

Street without joy, the French debacle in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall ; introduction by George C. Herring

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Street without joy, the French debacle in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall ; introduction by George C. Herring

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Street without joy

Responsibility statement

Bernard B. Fall ; introduction by George C. Herring

Sub title

the French debacle in Indochina

Summary

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. Street Without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic

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