Table of Contents

French Indochina 1945-46
The Battlefield
The Strategic Balance
French Union Forces
Main French Combat Units
The Viet Minh
Tactical Effectiveness
Chronology of Major Operations
The Plates

About the Author

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the very successful MAA 300 French Foreign Legion since 1945 and the recent MAA 322 The French War in Indochina 1946-54.

Mike Chappell comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He retired in 1974, as RSM of the 1st Battalion The Wessex Regiment (Rifle Volunteers) and began painting military subjects in 1968.