(Hardback)

Reveals how the French military in Indochina fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later did in Vietnam. This edition includes the original introduction by Bernard B Fall and a fresh foreword prepared by Eliot A Cohen.

(Paperback)

Part of the "Praeger Security International Classics of Counterinsurgency" series, this work reveals how the French military fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in Indochina during the 1940's and 1950's, to much greater extent than the Americans ever did in the later Vietnam conflict.