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Valérie André, French 'Helicopter Heroine' and army medic, dies at 102
Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André ...
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Review: ‘Those Opulent Days’ a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina
304 pages. $27. 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 ...
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Saigon at the crossroads
Around the same time the first British colonies were being established ... Japan took over governing Indochina for the duration of WWII, throwing French troops into jail and garrisoning thousands ...
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As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France
fighting to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria. He was a paratrooper in the 1957 battle of Algiers, later acknowledging violent actions he described as imposed by the hierarchy ...
Valérie André, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102
Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...
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Review of Bailey’s The Architecture of Empire | Rachael Maxon
The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 by Gauvin A. Bailey McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 488 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2 Reviewed by Rachael Maxon ...
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CPV’s enduring revolution forges path for Vietnam's development: Cambodian official
Minister Delegate attached to the Cambodian Prime Minister and head of the historical research committee of the Cambodian ...
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Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina
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 ...