Živí záviděli mrtvým. Českoslovenští dezertéři a zajatci ve vietnamských zajateckých táborech 1949–1951
The living envied the dead_Czechoslovak deserters and prisoners in Vietnamese detention camps 1949-1951

Summary/Abstract: In the course of the First Indochina War (1946–1954), more than 2,000 former Czechoslovak citizens fought in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. Around 500 of them died on the battlefield in Southeast Asia. Roughly 115 Czechoslovaks ended up being captured by the Vietnamese in the course of the conflict. At least 17 more deserted to side with the Viet Minh. Ladislav Kudrna describes the living conditions in the detention camps as well as the fate of Czechoslovak prisoners and deserters during and after the war, and upon their release from captivity.

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