A Minor Irritant to the French Authorities

Fred Halliday

  • Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power by David Marr
    California, 602 pp, $50.00, October 1995, ISBN 0 520 07833 0

When the Allies gathered at Potsdam in July 1945 to organise the postwar world, it is unlikely that any of those taking part had ever heard of Vietnam. The actual name had been eliminated, the prewar French colonialists having divided the country into three, and on the surface, the postwar arrangements for that part of Indochina were clear: first, Chinese and British troops would enter and then the French colonial rulers would return. As they did. In the three decades after 1945, however, Vietnam became one of the most savagely fought over territories of the past half-century.

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