In 1961, Fall's firsthand account of the tactics used by the Vietminh against the French resonated deeply with American troops then preparing to fight the same enemy in the same land.
French soldiers also faced a carefully orchestrated and highly effective campaign of psychological terror. What France faced in Indochina was a new kind of conflict~a revolutionary war fought without fronts in the heavy jungle against a mobile enemy that had an active sanctuary, a sympathetic neighbor offering support and supplies. The fighting, which ended in 1954 after the fail of Dien Bien Phu, cost France dearly: some 172,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, many along the hotly contested north~south highway known as the Street Without Joy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina War, the savage eight~year conflict in which French forces in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of Communist~led Vietnamese nationalists. Herring, the book is as powerful and thought~provoking today as it was then. Now reissued by the original publisher with a new introduction by George C. ~ First published in 1961, when the United States was sending soldiers to South Vietnam, Bernard Fail's 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.
first printing ( # 1 in # line) of this edition (1961 original). no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking, no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. tiny ding on the rear, not torn or price clipped. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. Shiny dark blue faux leather "leatherette" hardbound 8vo.
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