Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar
Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he was killed in Vietnam in 1967 while accompanying a Marine platoon. Written by his widow Dorothy, Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar tells the story of this courageous and influential Frenchman, who experienced many of the major events of the twentieth century. His mother perished at Auschwitz, his father was killed by the Gestapo, and he himself fought in the Resistance. It focuses, how…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Halberstam, David (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-59797-155-3
- EAN: 9781597971553
- Produktnummer: 3152696
- Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 285 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 308 g
- Gewicht: 308
Über den Autor
Bernard Fall's widow, Dorothy Fall, is a professional artist. She conducted interviews for this book in the United States, France, and Vietnam for thirty years and drew from her husband's entire correspondence, his autobiographical writings, his notes written in Vietnam, and official U.S. government files revealed here for the first time. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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