It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the French-Indochina War, a colonial conflict in which many Moroccans were enlisted from 1947 to 1954, just as North Africa was preparing for ...

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-Indochina war of ...