What if our understanding of "modern" counter-insurgency is all wrong? This talk, based on extensive research in Cambodian, French, and Vietnamese archives and libraries, focuses on a neglected part ...

Geneviève de Galard, a French air force nurse in the 1950s Indochina war who became known as the ... first class in late April 1954, just before the fall of the French stronghold in Dien ...

On August 27, it issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man, guaranteeing all French citizens freedom of speech, press, and religion, as well as a representative government and equality before ...

It would take over a hundred years before ... French. The English victory at Agincourt against a numerically superior French army was a significant turning point in the Hundred Years’ War ...

The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated their prisoners ...

André (then a captain) arrived in the French colonial protectorate of Indochina in ... One French war correspondent in Hanoi ...