Right beside it is the Central Post Office, and the War Remnants Museum where photo exhibitions relating to the Vietnam War can be found, and the first Indochina War, involving the French colonialists.

Readers with an interest in empire will likely wish there was even more sustained discussion of how the Algerian crisis, together with the Indochina War and developments in sub-Saharan Africa, connected to reconstruction tensions, but it is also hard to imagine how that would be feasible without making the book significantly longer than it already is.

Generally, the second stop on a city tour, this gallery primarily displays numerous photographs and documents that give a graphic account of that infamous war, also referred as the Second Indochina War, which claimed over three million lives.

Drawing upon Vietnamese-language sources never previously employed in Western accounts of the siege, "Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu" by Kevin Boylan and Luc Olivier is a dramatic re-telling of the climactic battle of the First Indochina War, the conflict that saw the French expelled from their former colony and set the stage for the "American War" in Vietnam.

In Phonsavan, he visited the Plain of Jars and bombed village to learn about Laos' history and the impact of the Indochina War. He also visited the Nam Ngum dam in Vientiane province.

16 days from [euro]3,948pp Also known as the Second Indochina War, this infamous conflict was defined by the sombre fact that it was the longest US combat force participation (over 17 years), allied with the South against the communist North.

Kevin Boylan's monograph is an impressive contribution to the history of the Second Indochina War. With over forty pages of notes, it is obviously a serious piece of scholarship based on detailed primary research.

This criticism of the policy in the aftermath of the Second Indochina War seems quite far-reaching, as it admits that the private sector could not develop in this period.

In Vietnam we had the decades-long wars, first for their independence from France (the First Indochina War of 1946 to 1954 ); immediately thereafter came the US military involvement which did not end until 1973; and finally, a civil war until 1975.

Nor has he forgiven them for signing his army papers so he could be thrown into the bloody Indochina War at 17.