Fall Format ebook ISBN 9780811736541 Series Stackpole Military History Author Bernard B. Stackpole Military History By Bernard B.Could be an amb-".įall was survived by his wife and three daughters. Street Without Joy ebook The French Debacle in Indochina
He was dictating notes into a tape recorder, which captured his last words: "We've reached one of our phase lines after the fire fight and it smells bad- meaning it's a little bit suspicious. On 21 February 1967, while accompanying a company of the 1st Battalion 9th Marines on Operation Chinook II in the Street Without Joy, Thua Thien Province, Fall stepped on a Bouncing Betty land mine and was killed. Journalist and scholar Bernard Fall vividly. He predicted the failures of France and the United States in the wars in Vietnam because of their tactics and lack of understanding of the societies. About the Book First published in 1961 by Stackpole Books, Street without Joy is a classic of military history. He taught at Howard University for most of his career and made regular trips to Southeast Asia to learn about changes and the societies. In 1950 he first came to the United States for graduate studies at Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University, returning and making his residence there. Born in Austria, he moved with his family to France as a child after Germany's annexation, where he started fighting with the French Resistance at age 16, and later the French Army during World War II. Journalist and scholar Bernard Fall vividly captured the sights, sounds, and smells of the brutal - and politically complicated - conflict between the French and the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina. Fall was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. First published in 1961 by Stackpole Books, Street without Joy remains a classic of military history.
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