![]() ![]() Earlier during World War II, the Japanese Army had in September 1940 attacked and conquered French Indochina. The book įall's book Street without Joy is a "sketch" or essay on the military- political history of the war largely fought between the French Army, who sought to reclaim Vietnam, and the Viet Minh, a force organized by Vietnamese communists, who resisted. In French it was called La Rue Sans Joie. ![]() It ran along the central coast of Vietnam from Huế north to Quảng Trị. The title of the book was taken from the name given by French soldiers to a stretch of Route 1 which had been fortified by their enemies, the Viet Minh. It drew wide interest among Americans in the mid-1960s, when their own country markedly increased its activity in the Vietnam War. The book gives a first-hand look at the French engagement, with an insider understanding of Vietnamese events, and provided insights into guerrilla warfare. He had been on-site as a French soldier, and then as an American war correspondent. ![]() Fall was a French-American professor and journalist. Street without Joy is a 1961 book about the First Indochina War (1946–1954) it was revised in 1964. ![]()
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