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In a 1965 letter to 'Newsweek', French writer and academic Bernard
Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the 'Number One Realist' on the
Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this
overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on
counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina. Nathaniel L. Moir's
intellectual history analyses Fall's formative experiences: his
service in the French underground and army during the Second World
War; his father's execution by the Germans and his mother's murder
in Auschwitz; and his work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg
Trials. Moir demonstrates how these critical events shaped Fall's
trenchant analysis of Viet Minh-led revolutionary warfare during
the French-Indochina War and the early Vietnam War. In the years
before conventional American intervention in 1965, Fall argued
that--far more than anything in the United States' military
arsenal--resolving conflict in Vietnam would require political
strength, willpower, integrity and skill. 'Number One Realist'
illuminates Fall's study of political reconciliation in Indochina,
while showing how his profound, humanitarian critique of war
continues to echo in the endless conflicts of the present. It will
challenge and change the way we think about the Vietnam War.
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