Street Without Joy
Subtitle: The French Debacle In Indochina
By: Bernard B. Fall ; introduction by George C. Herring
Contributors: George C. Herring (Introduction)
Series: Stackpole military history series
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: June 10, 2005
Place of publication: Mechanicsburg, PA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780811732369
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Military - Other; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; U.S. History - Vietnam Conflict (1965-1973); History; History - Military / War; Military; South East Asia; USA; Military - Vietnam War; Asia - Southeast Asia; Europe - France; 1945-; Indochina; Indochinese War, 1946-1954
First sentence: WAR came to Indochina in the wake of the crumbling of the European colonial empires in Asia during World War II.
Notes: "Copyright renewed in 1989. New material copyright 1994. Published in paperback in 2005." - Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / George C. Herring; title: Foreword / Marshall Andrews; title: Author's preface; title: How war came; title: Set-piece battle I; title: Set-piece battle II; title: Diary : milk run; title: Laos outpost; title: Diary : the women; title: "Street without joy"; title: Diary : inspection tour; title: End of a task force; title: Diary : the men; title: Death march; title: Why Dien Bien Phu?; title: The loss of Laos; title: The second Indochina war; title: The future of revolutionary war; title: Appendixes.; title: Glossary of abbreviations; title: Comparison between French and U.S. losses; title: Report on Viet-Nam; title: A military biography of Indochina