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

The First Indochina War was between France and Vietnam in the ’40s and ’50s. It functioned as a war of independence for Vietnam, previously part of French Indochina, and resulted in 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. By Tobias Grey When Éric ...

When the gruelling First Indochina War ended, in 1954, it was agreed that the country should be temporarily partitioned until 1956 when democratic elections would determine the future of a united ...

Their treatment of the origins of Vietnamese anti-colonial nationalism and the First Indochina War – also known as the French War (1946-1954) – is sketchy.

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.

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 ...

After the war he made a career of writing books and making movies primarily about men at war in Indochina. La 317e Section , published in 1963, was Schoendoerffer’s first novel. It tells the bleak ...

Soon after he and his wife arrived in Saigon in 1950, a bomb went off outside their hotel, killing French troops at a sidewalk cafe and introducing him to the First Indochina War, which pitted the ...