Martin Shipway
How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonisation And why did the French colonial administration, in late, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's regime that ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the Englishspeaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from theBrazzaville Conference, and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indochina.
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eBook | The Road To War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 |
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ISBN | 1571818944 |
ISBN-13 | 9781571818942 |
Publication | First published October 1, 1996 |
Number of Pages | 306 |
Format Type | Hardcover |