trials of the French soldiers in vivid, human terms. Praise for the book appeared in US military journals." Fitzgerald recalled that "the [American] commanding general at Fort Bragg, who was training the elite Special Forces for counterinsurgency warfare in Vietnam, often invited its author to lecture." Four decades later, she writes, Fall's book "reappeared on the reading list for officers during the Iraq War." During the Vietnam war, "Many an American officer got his first real appreciation of the agony of Vietnam by reading Dr. Fall's Street Without Joy .... Dr. Fall's material was mostly gathered first hand in 1953-54 when he lived in Hanoi and accompanied French forces on combat operations." Editions Street without Joy. Indochina at war, 1946-54 was written in English by professor-journalist Bernard Fall. It was published in 1961 by Stackpole Co. in Harrisurg, PA. A revised text was issued in 1964 with an 'Author's Preface' of same date, and an added chapter, "The Second Indochina War". A reprint was published in 1972 by Schocken, New York. Subsequently, in 1994 Stackpole Books reissued it, evidently in the revised text, with a new 1993 Introduction by prof. George C. Herring, and an undated Foreword by Marshall Andrews (apparently from the first edition). Included are about thirty battlefield maps by the author, and numerous French Army and Viet Minh photographs. The art work is by Dorothy Fall (the author's wife). The 1994 Table of Contents: About the four chapters indicating the employment of a Diary, Fall here described his personal experiences of the war which animate his book. He was not a journalist, but a scholar doing research. Yet, as a "Frenchman who had formerly served" he was permitted to accompany the French army and live "with the men who were doing the fighting". He "met many a soldier, French or Asian, who could tell me in his own terms what it was like to be out along the defense perimeter, wet and afraid." He writes that it "knocked the intellectual superciliousness out of me." What experiences Fall could "not use for my research went into a diary in the form of letters to the American girl who is now my wife." Fall adds, "I feel that it has a place" in the book. Bernard Fall in Vietnam During World War II, Fall served in the French resistance and later in the French Army. Also a reserve officer,