"This richly textured, magisterial volume draws on an impressive range of Vietnamese, French and English-language archival and secondary sources.
"This richly textured, magisterial volume draws on an impressive range of Vietnamese, French and English-language archival and secondary sources.
(…) It should be clear from what I’ve written that anyone interested in the First Indochina War, or the Second for that matter, will need to consult this definitive, beautifully organized chef d’oeuvre (…). Anyone writing about the period will probably need to consult it on a daily basis."