By Bernard B. Fall
Initially released in 1961, sooner than the USA escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, road with out pleasure provided a transparent caution approximately what American forces may face within the jungles of Southeast Asia: a high priced and chronic innovative warfare fought with out fronts opposed to a cellular enemy. In harrowing aspect, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina conflict, the savage eight-year conflict-ending in 1954 after the autumn of Dien Bien Phu-in which French forces suffered a magnificent defeat by the hands of Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists. With its frontline standpoint, shiny reporting, and cautious research, road with out pleasure was once required examining for policymakers in Washington and GIs within the box and is now thought of a vintage.
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For a time there was a gap five miles broad in the front of the position of the Allies, and there were many hours during which there was no substantial force between the Germans and Ypres. They wasted their time, however, in consolidating their ground, and the chance of a great coup passed for ever. They had sold their souls as soldiers, but the Devil's price was a poor one. Had they had a corps of cavalry ready, and pushed them through the gap, it would have been the most dangerous moment of the war.
This work, begun by Lieutenant Burnyeat and a hundred miners of the Monmouth battalions, was very difficult owing to the wet soil. It was charged by Major Norton Griffiths and the 171st Mining Company Royal Engineers. At seven in the evening of Saturday, April 17, the whole was exploded with terrific effect. Before the smoke had cleared away the British infantry had dashed from their trench and the hill was occupied. A handful of dazed Germans were taken prisoners and 150 were buried under the debris.
Colonel Boyle lost his life in this very gallant advance, which may truly be said to have saved the situation, since it engaged the German attention and gave time for reinforcements to arrive. The immediate pressing necessity was to give the French time to re-form, and to make some sort of line between the Canadian left and the French right. As early as half-past two in the morning, while the two Canadian regiments were struggling in the wood of St. Julien, the First Cavalry Division were showing once again the value of a mobile reserve.