The French war in Indochina had already endured for seven years when in April 1953, the Viet Minh forces comprising a ragtag army of volunteers decided to take their offensive to Laos, which had ...

During the last months of the First Indochina War in 1954, French General Henri Navarre believed that he could get rid of the ...

This is chiefly an account of events in French Indochina following the Japanese occupation up to the fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Communist take-over in Northern Vietnam. The author served on the ...

Gen. Bigeard, who led French forces in colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, dies at 94 Associated Press Published June 18, 2010 7:01am EDT | Updated November 17, 2014 1:57pm EST ...

A new book explains how Andre Malraux became a human rights activist in French Indochina after failing as a thief. Page 1 of 1. Top Stories.

Research suggests French feared Mao would push on to Indochina in 1949. When the communist armies under Mao Zedong swept through China in 1949, pushing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to Taiwan ...

Genevieve de Galard, a nurse dubbed the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" for treating wounded during a defining 1954 battle in then French Indochina, has died ...

Paris (AFP) – France is to repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, the country's last stand in colonial Indochina, the defence ministry said. The operation ...