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'''''The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam''''' is a book by [[Lucien Bodard]] published in 1967 about the [[First Indochina War]], which it asserts to be a prelude to the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Vietnam Story |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/04/archives/the-vietnam-story-the-vietnam-story.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 4, 1967 |accessdate=2008-12-24 |format=fee required | first=John | last=Mecklin}}</ref> Originally published in 2 French volumes, ''L'Enlisement'' and ''L'Humiliation'', it was combined into a single book and translated by [[Patrick O'Brian]].

Lucien Bodard was one of the best-known French foreign correspondents and was an expert on Indochina; he knew the Far East as few Europeans could know it, for not only did he spend most of his working life there<ref>{{cite news |title=Vietnam Look: Before the War and Now |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/521689252.html?dids=521689252:521689252&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+21%2C+1967&author=JACK+FOISIE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Vietnam+Look%3A+Before+the+War+and+Now&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525125248/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/521689252.html?dids=521689252:521689252&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+21,+1967&author=JACK+FOISIE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Vietnam+Look:+Before+the+War+and+Now&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 21, 1967 |accessdate=2008-12-24 |format=fee required | first=Jack | last=Foisie}}</ref> but he was born in [[Chongqing]].

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[[Category:Books about Vietnam]]

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