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Street Without Joy

By: Schocken Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Schocken Books)

Last Stocked on 4/13/2016

Product Info

Title
Street Without Joy
Publisher
Category
Author
Bernard B Fall
Publish Year
1972
Pages
408
Dimensions
5.25x8x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147595957
Type
Softcover

Description

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. Street Without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic.