Bernard B. Fall (1926–1967)
Autor von Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu
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Bernard Fall was born in Vienna in 1926, migrating to France in 1938. After his father was killed by the Gestapo and his mother killed at Auschwitz, he joined the French Resistance at sixteen, then the French Army. Following World War II, he was an analyst with the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. mehr anzeigen Coming to the United States in the early 1950s, he earned a master's and a doctorate at Syracuse University. He first traveled to Indochina in 1953, returning in 1957, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1967, when he was killed by a mine on the "street without joy," the highway he had described in his book. He also wrote Hell in a Very Small Place. weniger anzeigen
Werke von Bernard B. Fall
The Viet-Nam reader; articles and documents on American foreign policy and the Viet-Nam crisis (1964) 64 Exemplare
The Viet-Minh Regime: Government and Administration in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1975) 3 Exemplare
I terribili 56 giorni 2 Exemplare
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- 1926-11-19
- Todestag
- 1967-02-21
- Geschlecht
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- Nationalität
- France (naturalized)
- Geburtsort
- Vienna, Austria
- Sterbeort
- Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, Vietnam
- Todesursache
- land mine
- Wohnorte
- Washington, D.C., USA
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, UK - Ausbildung
- University of Paris
University of Munich
University of Maryland
Syracuse University - Berufe
- war correspondent
historian
political scientist
journalist - Beziehungen
- Winer, Dorothy (spouse)
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- American University
Howard University
French Army
French Resistance - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- George Polk Journalism Award (1966)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1966)
Ordre de la Libération (1945)
Fulbright Scholar (1950)
United States Department of Defense Certificate of Appreciation (1961)
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