The Vietnam War was a highly controversial conflict. We break down some of the most common questions about the war.

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 ...

The French and Indian War is one of those conflicts we learned about in history classes, but we tend to be hazy on the details. That’s partly because it all took place a generation before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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