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French Indo-China is unique from another point of view. Unlike other colonies of southeast Asia -- the Philippines, Burma, Java and Malaysia, for example -- it is not a single, homogeneous country, ...
This is chiefly an account of events in French Indochina following the Japanese occupation up to the fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Communist take-over in Northern Vietnam. The author served on the ...
It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...
INDOCHINA For three years, the French have been fighting a weary, tenacious jungle war against the Communists in Indo-China. To save France's richest prewar colony (and a potentially important ...
Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose "inspectors" on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France's ...
The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.
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Stymied French politicians turn to the sins of the past - MSNRecognizing returnees from Indochina. Just one day after the Dreyfus vote, the National Assembly also passed a law to recognize and compensate former returnees from French Indochina after the ...
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The French Roots Behind Vietnam's Bánh Mì SandwichForces landed in Da Nang in 1858 and, by 1887, had established French Indochina, with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos under occupation. In their nearly century-long rule, a fusion of cultures emerged.
It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...
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