She was the woman in the floppy jungle hat, standing in front of a Hiller 360 helicopter—young, with a confident smile, ...

This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part of the First Indochina War (1945-54), the struggle for the southern ...

By nightfall, 150 French soldiers were dead. The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French ...

a French air force nurse in the 1950s Indochina war who became known as the “angel of Dien Bien Phu,” the only woman in an embattled garrison amid wounded and dying soldiers as well-armed ...

Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the boredom and excitement of waiting for their first mission. But when they ...

This course examines two major conflicts: the French Indochina War and the ... and the experience of soldiers, civilians, and activists in the wars. We will read histories, testimonies of soldiers and ...