<li>Reprint of an all-time classic on the Vietnam War <p> Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, <i>Street without Joy</i> offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina War, the savage eight-year conflict-ending in 1954 after the fall of Dien Bien Phu-in which French forces suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists. With its frontline perspective, vivid reporting, and careful analysis, <i>Street without Joy</i> was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic.