During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the ...

Éric Vuillard writes short historical narratives known for their irony. His latest, “An Honorable Exit,” delves into France’s defeat in the First Indochina War.

Once, while I was working at a political event, a veteran of the Vietnam War told me he was sorry for what had happened there. It had been, he said, a long time ago. But he still spoke as if he ...

SAIGON, Indochina -- Fighting stopped in all of Indochina today for the first time in almost eight years. Peace came to the war-torn peninsula when the cease-fire negotiated at Geneva last July 2 ...

The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.

On April 21, 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces.

France is still trying to find the bodies of soldiers who went missing during the First Indochina War. Two men have spent decades searching for clues about the death of their uncle, who served in ...

What if our understanding of "modern" counter-insurgency is all wrong? This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part ...

The Indochina War (1946 to 1954), also known as the First Indochina War or the French Indochina War, was a war in French Indochina between France and the League for the Independence of Vietnam ...

Vuillard, who specializes in novels tracking historical events, turns his eye to France’s attempts to extricate itself from the First Indochina War, culminating in the disastrous defeat at Dien ...

As Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap noted that on the eve of the First Indochina War: “Indochina is a strategic unit, a single theater of operations.