Kronologikus hadtörténet 4 – Újkor 1900-tól – Könyvek

FALL : Street without joy (fülszöveg)

 

For those who like to look behind the headlines ... STREET WITHOUT JOY will be a revelation. It is, as one reviewer said, "military history at its best" about the kind of war that makes brave men weep. Probably never before, in the recorded history of ancient or modern warfare, have military men, whose very profession demands that they win, been charged with such a frustrating task as facing revolutionary war in the jungle.

In this penetrating, searching study, the author first tells how war came to what was then called French Indochina. He recounts how the Viet-Minh under two life-long Communists gained a foothold during the Japanese occupation; how when VJ-day dawned they were ready to take over the country and the anti-colonial revolution; how they later avoided being drawn into set-piece battles; and how today they apply the same methods with deadly efficiency against the South Vietnamese and their American advisers.

Thus begins the story of a struggle, which even now, nearly twenty years later, shows uncertain promise to ever being ended decisively on the battlefield.

Without being a traditional chronology of a war, STREET WITHOUT JOY details the key events . . . the battles that sealed the fate of close to 100,000 French soldiers and now of many U.S. servicemen; the failures of the tacticians to recognize the unconventionality of guerrilla warfare then and now. Dr. Fall also shows that this kind of war was and is a human, individual conflict, illustrating this with warm and sometimes unbelievable accounts of personal accomplishments and tragedy.

The author's candid appraisal of what has happened, and what is now going on in Viet-Nam and Laos shows that real peace will only be won when military and political leaders learn that revolutionary warfare cannot be left to happy improvisation and military technology.

For all free men who care about aggression anywhere, anytime, there are lessons to be learned from STREET WITHOUT JOY.

 

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