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  • French Indochina War: Reflections for Strategic Resilience

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    par Simon Huston ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Pearl Orient
    Military mistakes impel strategic reflection. The French Indochina War (FIW) from 1946-1954 furnishes useful insights with some resonance for current challenges. A combination of pre-exiting conditions, catalysts and operational drivers cause the cathartic 1954 French defeat. Pre-conditions include the illegitimacy of the colonial regime and repression that polarises nationalist sentiment. ... En savoir plus

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  • French Indochina War: Reflections for Strategic Resilience

    Pearl Orient, #1

    par Simon Huston ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Pearl Orient
    Pandemics and military catastrophes illustrate systems fragility and impel strategic reflection. The French Indochina War (FIW) from 1946-1954 furnishes insights with resonance for current infectious, climatic, pollution and economic challenges. Four strategic themes structured an analysis of historical literature. The reasons for the French failure in 1954 involved fundamental regime illegitimacy ... En savoir plus

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  • Embers of War

    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARSWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTh... ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Vietnam

    The complete story of the Australian war

    Take a journey back to the front line with two Australian veterans as they retrace the footsteps of soldiers and politicians, villagers and the enemy in a meticulously researched new history of the Vietnam War.For Australians, Vietnam remains one of most difficult - and controversial - wars we have fought. On the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete ... En savoir plus

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  • Valley of Death

    The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

    par Ted Morgan ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The First Air War

    1914-1918

    par Lee Kennett ...
    Historian Lee Kennett takes on the vital task of detailing the World War I aviator in this complete overview of the first air war, that Richard P. Hallion calls, "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation.""The whole subject of the first air war is like some imperfectly explored country: there are areas that have been crisscrossed by several generations of ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Cruel Victory

    The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944

    par Paddy Ashdown ...
    From the bestselling and prize-winning author of ‘A Brilliant Little Operation’ comes the long neglected D-Day story of the largest action by the French Resistance during WWII, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.In early 1941, three separate groups of plotters – one military, one political, one intellectual – began to organise and plan on and around the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

    par Jean-Louis Roba ...
    This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.No air force in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, military historian Jean-Louis Roba has tracked down hundreds of such aircraft with rare images that illustrate their uses, careers, and eventual fates. Foreign Planes in the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Last Valley

    Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

    par Martin Windrow ...
    Stalingrad in the jungle: the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into VietnamIn winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and légionnaires, with artillery and tanks, were flown to the remote valley of Dien Bien Phu to build a fortress upon which Giap could smash his inexperienced ... En savoir plus

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  • Victory at Any Cost

    par Cecil B. Currey ...
    Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the worlds great powersand won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of historys greatest generals. ... En savoir plus

    $14.03 CAD

  • French Foreign Legion Paratroops

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    The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in Indochina, and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion.There were some initial doubts. The Legion were known to be magnificent heavy infantry, but were felt by some to lack the flexibility and agility demanded by independent airborne ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam

    A military studies professor and former combatant "rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides" of this thirty-year conflict ( New York Journal of Books).Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in Washington, DC. The stark facts, ... En savoir plus

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