Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series)

by Bernard B. Fall

calling for something that had almost disappeared from the Western military vocabulary-a bayonet charge.

"Monday-morning-quarterbacking."

Giap preferred to sacrifice those parts of his units which were hopelessly trapped rather than let himself be "sucked" into the type of meat-grinder operation

"Tien-len, Tien-len"! (Forward, Forward!)

Something very warm welled up in me. I felt like running over to the little Cambodian who had fought all his life for my country, and apologizing to him for my countrymen here who didn't care about him, and for my countrymen in France who didn't even care about their countrymen fighting in Indochina .. . And in one single blinding flash, I knew that we were going to lose the war.