Originally Posted by
JPLearn
Although a novel it is relevant to you interest.
"The Centurions" by Jean Lartguy
Story told through the experience of French paratroopers in Indochina and Algeria.
sample Reviewer comments:
"An excellent book which gives a good understanding of the French military mindset during the First Vietnam War. I recommend it to my students at Glasgow University as a 'must-read' for American History - Vietnam studies.
I read this book as a young Parachute Regiment officer and have remembered its lessons to this day as they have been applicable to all subsequent wars."
"I read this first when learning counterinsurgency tactics in the Marines, in 1963. It was influential because we all - second lieutenants destined, though we didn't know it then, to become platoon and company commanders in Vietnam - read it and thought it set forth truth.
Unfortunately, it seems to be out of print, and used copies go for several hundreds of dollars."
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