Book Talk Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar

Written by: Mike Hersh on Nov 29, 2007 10:34 AM EST

Linked to groups: Montgomery County Progressive Alliance

We have a great event coming up 7:30 PM Tuesday December 4, 2007 (this Tuesday) in Wheaton, Maryland. Please RSVP http://dfalink.com/rsvp_event.php?id=25739 and pass along this information to all your friends in the DC area. Please let me know if you can make it. We'd like to know how many books Dorothy should bring.

Book Talk Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar: Dorothy Fall, author of an exciting and informative new biography about her husband Bernard Fall, will discuss and sign copies of her book.

Sabang Restaurant
2504 Ennalls Avenue
Wheaton, Maryland 20902
http://www.sabangrestaurant.com/
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2whqqu
Short walk from the Wheaton Metro on the Red Line
Fully Accessible - Great Food - Bring Money to Buy a Copy of the Book - RSVP: http://dfalink.com/rsvp_event.php?id=25739

Book Description: Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar (Paperback) by Dorothy Fall. Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he was killed in Vietnam in 1967 while accompanying a Marine platoon.

Written by his widow Dorothy, Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar tells the story of this courageous and influential Frenchman, who experienced many of the major events of the twentieth century. His mother perished at Auschwitz, his father was killed by the Gestapo, and he himself fought in the Resistance. It focuses, however, on Vietnam and on two love stories.
The first details Fall's love for Vietnam and his efforts to save the country from destruction and the United States from disaster. The second shows a husband and father dedicated to a cause that continuously lured him away from those he loved. With a foreword by the late David Halberstam.

Time:     Tuesday, December 4 at 7:30 PM
Duration:     2 hours

Host:     Mike Hersh

Location: Sabang Restaurant (Wheaton, MD)
2504 Ennalls Avenue, Wheaton, MD 20902

Directions: Across Viers Mill Rd from Wheaton Westfield Shopping Center, (Between Georgia Ave. and Viers Mill)

Short walk from the Wheaton Metro on the Red Line

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2whqqu

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