An Honourable Exit
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Greed, not glory, fueled a colonial war’s devastating, dishonorable end.
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An Honourable Exit

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    192 pages

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    9 September 2024

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Summary

An Honourable Exit: Greed, Politics, and the Fall of French Indochina

From the acclaimed author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.

19 October 1950. The war in Indochina is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss their options. The conflict is unpopular back home: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an opt…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035004003
ISBN-10:1035004003
Author:Eric Vuillard
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:9 September 2024
Weight:138g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 13mm
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Critics Review

Excoriating and profound … A remarkable work … I cannot think of an Anglophone author who writes with such polemical, poetical indignation * Scotsman *Clever and scathing * Le Temps *Absolutely spectacular * France Info *Pages clenched like fists ready to strike. It is the eternal war of the powerful against the weak that Vuillard stages in each of his books * L’Obs *Sparkling … By his pen, historical figures become beings of flesh and blood; we hear them breathe, we see them sweat * L’Histoire *The challenge for Vuillard is to tear the rancid nostalgia for ‘the good old days’ of the colonies, for the chic, elegant, confident and honourable colonial France, to pieces * La Croix *

About The Author

Eric Vuillard

Éric Vuillard is a writer and filmmaker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books, including Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d’Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud). He won the 2017 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, for L’ordre du jour (The Order of the Day), and he was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize for The War of the Poor.

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