Street without Joy by Bernard B Fall

Street without Joy by Bernard B Fall

- Reprint of an all-time classic on the Vietnam War 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. With its frontline perspective, vivid reporting, and careful analysis, Street without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic.

A poignant, angry, articulate book..' - Newsweek 'Definitive military history of the Indochina conflict' - New Republic 'Mr. Fall's book is a dramatic treatment of a historic event... the vast panorama of the Indochina struggle emerges with graphic impact in his volume.' - The New York Times Book Review

Bernard B. Fall was a journalist specializing in Southeast Asia. Before he was killed while covering Vietnam in 1967, Fall wrote several other books, including Hell in a Very Small Place and Last Reflections on a War.

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ISBN 13	9780811732369
ISBN 10	0811732363
Title	Street without Joy
Author	Bernard B Fall
Series	Stackpole Military History Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Stackpole Books
Year published	2005-07-15
Number of pages	416
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