40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954

Truong, Marcelino

ISBN 10: 1551529238 / ISBN 13: 9781551529233

Published by Arsenal Pulp Press (edition ), 2023

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It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1551529238-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551529238
• ISBN 13: 9781551529233
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling, a stirring graphic novel about love, beauty, and war in 1950s Indochina.

40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a fifty-five-day battle, which lead to the end of the first Indochina war opposing both French and Nationalist Vietnamese forces to Ho Chi Minh's National-Communist underground state. Minh (no relation to Ho) is a young man from Hanoi, an aspiring painter who dreams of experiencing la vie de boheme in Paris's Latin Quarter. To dissuade him from pursuing an artistic life, his father sends him into the countryside to tend to the family holdings. He is soon pressed into serving with the Ho Chi Minh People's Army, where he becomes a soldier, and is co-opted by his leaders to the Communist propaganda machine, despite repeatedly defying his cadres—ideological Communist commanders with whom he disagrees— becoming both hero and anti-hero in the process.

40 Men and 12 Rifles is a moving and beautifully illustrated book about the human and artistic spirit of the Indochinese people, who persevered in the face of warfare and suffering.

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