Ho Chi Minh barely receives a mention in Éric Vuillard’s new novel An Honourable Exit, which is more concerned with denouncing colonial abuses in French Indochina than hailing the art of war.

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 ...

During the Second World War, Japan occupied large parts of Indochina -- present-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Vietnamese Viet Minh group attempted ...