strangled French trade in the Bay of Biscay and cut France off from the wider world. What happened when there was no western squadron had been shown all too clearly during the War of American ...

blowing open a long hidden intracommunist antagonism and triggering the Third Indochina War. Fifty years later, a truce exists but behind the forced smiles and flowery words of friendship ...

For the people of Vietnam, it would be their second Indochina war, coming eleven years after the Viet Minh’s defeat of the French colonial army and the creation of North and South Vietnam.

political cadres and communist sympathizers who had battled the French during the First Indochina War). Their relocation was part of a political bargain, a temporary arrangement until nationwide ...

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I lived through Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Great Depression and World War II, and our nation of strong people (known as the Greatest Generation) made many real sacrifices to survive the depression ...

“I remember looking through my door and seeing soldiers disposing their weapons and taking off their uniforms — shirts, hats and pants ... called the Third Indochina War, a string of ...

He is the author of "The Third Indochina War: An International History" (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and "The Second Indochina War; The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective" (Routledge ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones’Mick Jagger sings in swaggering French. Louisiana native Lucinda Williams delivers a slow, slinky, swamp pop sound. Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughan ...

being captured and tortured and then escaping into the jungle. Not long after the turn of the century, former U.S. defense secretary and Vietnam War architect Robert S. McNamara sat for interviews ...

This remark was uttered not by Donald Trump’s entourage nor by European populists, but by billionaire French businessman Bernard Arnault. At the recent shareholders' meeting in Paris of luxury ...