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Born November 11, 1926
Vienna, Austria
Died February 21, 1967
Near Hue, Vietnam

French journalist and historian

"We went in a third time and raked over the village with our cannon . . . . The village was burning fiercely. I will never forget the sight of the fishing nets in flame, covered with burning, jellied gasoline. . . ."

French journalist Bernard Fall covered the Vietnam War through the 1950s and 1960s, as first France and then the United States became engaged in military efforts to control the political future of Vietnam. During this time, he published several important studies of the situation in Vietnam, including Street Without Joy, Two Viet-Nams, Hell in a Very Small Place, and Last Reflections on a War. These works made Fall a recognized authority on both the French and American phases of the Vietnam War.