It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a ...

Following the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the First Indochina War ended with the 1954 Geneva Accords. Under the terms of the Accords, the French agreed to withdraw its forces from French Indochina.

On April 21, 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce Dien Bien Phu. The city later fell to communist Viet Minh forces. File Photo by R.H. Spanier/U.S. Navy ...

BATTLE OF INDOCHINA In the high mountains of the kingdom of Laos, there is a wide, grassy plateau which the French call the Plaine des Jarres because of the ancient stone burial urns dotted about ...

Had the French government remained at war with Germany, authorities in Indochina would have had both the means and the motivation to resist Japanese advances.

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose "inspectors" on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France's ...

Just one day after the Dreyfus vote, the National Assembly also passed a law to recognize and compensate former returnees from French Indochina after the colonial rule of territories including ...

The over 10,000-man garrison was a made up of French soldiers, Foreign Legionnaires, and colonial troops from North Africa and Indochina. But the French neglected to seize the surrounding high ground.

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. “Those Opulent Days,” the ...