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 ...

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose “inspectors” on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France’s prize Asiatic ...

THOSE OPULENT DAYS: A Mystery. By Jacquie Pham. Atlantic Monthly Press. 304 pages. $27. It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina ...