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This text offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women, the book reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials.

Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Women revolutionaries --- Upper class women --- Women --- Political activity --- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) --- History --- Vietname War, French Indochina, Revolution, Vietnamese women, nationalism, communism, Lycee Marie Curie, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh.

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"On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of bringing down the formidable French army.Taking readers from the outbreak of fighting in 1945 to the epic battle at Dien Bien Phu, Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of “War Communism.” Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering, and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians.Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and statecraft in East Asia today."

Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- Communism --- Decolonization --- History --- History. --- Vietnam --- History, Military

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History of Asia --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Vietnam --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Guerre d'Indochine, 1946-1954 --- Viêt-nam --- History --- Histoire --- Viêt-nam --- Viêt-nam - Histoire - 1858-1945

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Nationalism --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Southeast Asia --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Vietnam --- Colonial influence. --- Politics and government --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia