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Sincèrement, si Lansdale n’est pas Alden Pyle, c’est son grand frère (jumeau).
Il est vrai que Greene a toujours nié un lien quelconque entre Pyle et Lansdale.
Il n’empêche que Greene (ancien du renseignement Anglais) ne pouvait ignorer le personnage Lansdale.
Greene a d’ailleurs dit qu’il n’avait jamais eu le « déplaisir » de rencontrer Edward G. Lansdale.But Greene vehemently denied any link with Lansdale; his Alden Pyle, he said, was based on another, lesser-known American operative. That didn’t stop Lansdale from using the book (which he disparaged as anti-American) to his advantage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/books/review/15gibney.html?_r=2&oref=sloginWho was Lansdale?
To Graham Greene, he was Alden Pyle, « The Quiet American, » a classic American innocent, not in Paris but in the poisoned, unfinished trouble spots of the world, nothing more than a CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency.To Jean Larteguy, he was Colonel Lionel Teryman, « Le Male Jaune, » a tough, brutal new American midwest version of Lawrence of Arabia Lawrence of Arabia
To the American writers Lists of American writers William Lederer William Julius Lederer « The Ugly American« , practically the only American who understood how to mold with original hands the real and fractious world of new decolonized countries.
To his brother, Benjamin Carroll Lansdale, he was always a « revolutionary. »Quixotically, and finally, Oliver North Oliver Laurence North totally unlike Lansdale in any sense of realism or proportion looked upon himself as « Lansdalian. »
But perhaps former CIA Director William Colby characterized Lansdale best, if uncritically: « Lansdale helped and perhaps created the best president the Philippines ever had…turned American policy away from support of French colonial French Colonial rule in Vietnam to support of a non-Communist nationalist leader….he preached for Americans to support those willing to fight for themselves…. » He was « one of the greatest spies in history…the stuff of legends. »
Edward Geary Lansdale was born in 1908 in Dayton, Ohio, emerging out of all the parts of America he was to fight to make understand. The American century was at the heady height of its beginning. The American mission was clarion clear, and the prototypical American military men of the time were rough-riding, hard-drinking men of utter assurance about America, men like Teddy Roosevelt. By the time Lansdale died in 1987, everything had changed. America’s dynamic assurance had been savaged by wars that Americans just couldn’t understand–different wars in unfinished countries like Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador
Lansdale’s saga is that he, almost alone in this period of tragedies for American president after American president, did understand. The lanky American kid from Dayton with the big nose and the advertising executive’s mind saw that the weapons and techniques that American was using simply did not match the demands of these new and bedeviling worlds. Lansdale himself, when he was in Vietnam in the formative 1950s, said that he had the terrible feeling that he was seeing the beginnings of World War III in these Third World conflicts. Actually, he was right. While traditional American military thinkers were out scanning the horizons for nuclear subs and missiles, the real war of out times was the one that Lansdale understood.
Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. – Free Online LibraryEd Lansdale’s Black Warfare in 1950s Vietnam » HistoryNet
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Le Bassac (vapeur de rivière de 214 tonnes)trinhdung;116386 wrote:.Les très jeunes comme j’étais ,étaient chargés de préparer les munitions(amorçage des obus,mise en bandes des cartouches de mitrailleuses)
A DBP,le « cháo gà » était réservé aux grands blessés encore que,il n’y avait pas beaucoup de « gà ». Trinh DungEn fait, tu ressemblais plutôt à Gavroche. Un Gavroche qui ne se serait pas fait tuer.
J’ai lu le livre de Giap sur la guerre depuis 45 jusqu’a Dien Bien Phu.
C’était aussi et d’abord une guerre du riz pour arriver à nourrir les combattants et les non-combattants qui assuraient l’intendance.
Les militaires Français l’avaient compris depuis le début et faisaient tout leur possible pour empêcher l’approvisionnement en riz des troupes Viet Minh.
Apres la chute de Dien Bien Phu, les prisonniers survivants ont pu apprécier combien cette politique de la terre brulée avait été efficace.
Il n’y avait pas assez de « gạo » et encore moins de » tịt gà » pour tout le monde.
