The French presence was maintained in Indochina during the war, but in 1945 the Japanese got rid of the last Europeans, both civilians and soldiers, who were executed or imprisoned. At the end of the hostilities, the Chinese Nationalists and the British took possession of the country, the Chinese oc
Pacification was one of the major euphemisms used by the Americans and the South Vietnamese to cover various activities related to security, counterintelligence, the war economy, and the treatment of civilians. According to the process of pacification , two were the basic tactics of the government f
For most readers, A.E.I.O.U. It will be nothing more than the vowels of the alphabet or, if it ends with ípsilon, the title of a popular Brazilian song. But you have to look at the detail of the dots between them, which turn those letters into a monogram. Of what exactly? Well, nothing less than a l
In April 1917 the French army launched the biggest attack on the Western Front up to that time. The attack, based on the plans of the general who initiated it, would completely split the German front and bring victory. Unfortunately for the general in question, the attack only succeeded in causing m