France's Brutal War to keep South East Asia - First Indochina War Documentary

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For seven years beginning in 1946, the French Union fought a desperate war to keep control of its colonies in South East Asia, in the face of a determined and ruthless Communist adversary. This is the story of a brutal colonial conflict in Vietnam that became a crisis of global importance, with each side obtaining powerful allies as the causes of anti-communism and anti-colonialism collided in dramatic fashion.

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - The Guerilla War
3:24 - The Battle for Route 4
6:00 - A Change in Leadership
9:00 - The War for Rice
11:55 - The First Northwestern Campaign
13:56 - Countdown to Dien Bien Phu

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Sources:
Max Hastings, Vietnam

John Springhall, "Kicking out the Vietminh: How Britain Allowed France to Reoccupy South Indochina", Journal of Contemporary History, Jan 2005 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036312

George C. Herring, "The Truman Administration and the Restoration of French Sovereignty in Indochina", Diplomatic History, Spring 1977 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24909909

Ralph B. Smith, "The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Sep. 1978
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i20062721

Stein Tønnesson, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began

Christopher Goscha, The Road to Dien Bien Phu

Bernard Fall, Street without Joy: the French debacle in Indochina,

Martin Windrow, The French Indochina War 1946-54

Lucien Bodard, The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam