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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Special, Documentary, History, War 1 season French From 1940 to 1954, France's brutal war in Indochina marked one of the 20th century's bloodiest decolonisation conflicts.

In 1963, she married retired French air force colonel Alexis Santini, whom she first met in Indochina. He died in 1997. They had no children. Details of her surviving family were not immediately ...