Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina Tapa dura - 1994

A poignant, angry, articulate book Newsweek 'Mr Fall's book is a dramatic treatment of a historic event graphic impact New York Times Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina War, the savage eight-year conflict, ending in 1954 after the fall of Dien Bien Phu, in which French forces suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists. Street Without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic.

Detalles

• Título Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina
• Autor Bernard B. Fall
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición First Thus
• Páginas 416
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
• Fecha de publicación 1994-03
• Ilustrado Sí
• ISBN 9780811717007 / 0811717003
• Peso 0.08 libras (0.04 kg)
• Dimensiones 8 x 5 x 1.43 pulgadas (20.32 x 12.70 x 3.63 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Indochinese War, 1946-1954
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93034825
• Dewey Decimal Code 959.803