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Street Without Joy

2018-02-16 History
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Release : 2018-02-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Street Without Joy by : Bernard B. Fall

Download or read book Street Without Joy written by Bernard B. Fall. This book was released on 2018-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961 by Stackpole Books, Street without Joy is a classic of military history. Journalist and scholar Bernard Fall vividly captured the sights, sounds, and smells of the brutal— and politically complicated—conflict between the French and the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina. The French fought to the bitter end, but even with the lethal advantages of a modern military, they could not stave off the Viet Minh insurgency of hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. The final French defeat came at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, setting the stage for American involvement and a far bloodier chapter in Vietnam‘s history. Fall combined graphic reporting with deep scholarly knowledge of Vietnam and its colonial history in a book memorable in its descriptions of jungle fighting and insightful in its arguments. After more than a half a century in print, Street without Joy remains required reading.

Last Reflections on a War

2000 United States
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Release : 2000
Genre : United States
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Book Rating : 040/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Last Reflections on a War by : Bernard B. Fall

Download or read book Last Reflections on a War written by Bernard B. Fall. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

Street Without Joy

1994 History
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Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 007/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Street Without Joy by : Bernard B. Fall

Download or read book Street Without Joy written by Bernard B. Fall. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic account of the French War in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is back in hardcover. Includes an introduction by George C. Herring.

Bloody Jungle

2013-11-01 History
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Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bloody Jungle by : Chris Evans

Download or read book Bloody Jungle written by Chris Evans. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of the Vietnam War in the Stackpole Military Photo Series. Included are detailed photos of soldiers, helicopters and ground vehicles, villages and terrain, base camps, and more. With hundreds of photos, many of them rare and never published before, this is the perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, such as Street Without Joy and Land With No Sun.

Dancing in the Streets

2007-12-26 History
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Release : 2007-12-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Streets by : Barbara Ehrenreich

Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich. This book was released on 2007-12-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation

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