Click2Flicks - The Quiet American - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE QUIET AMERICAN</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch2.htm">2. HO CHI MINH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch3.htm">3. VIETNAM'S WAR WITH FRANCE </a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch4.htm">4. A FRENCH DEFEAT </a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch5.htm">5. SCENES DURING FRENCH RULE </a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch6.htm"><b>6. PLACES IN "QUIET AMERICAN" </b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch7.htm"><b>7. LESSONS NOT LEARNED </a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="quiet_american_ch8.htm">8. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></p></div> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman,arial,helvetica" size=3 color=000000><b><i>I never knew a man who had<br> better motives<br> for all the trouble he caused.</i></b></font><br><br></div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="center"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000"><b><a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35ler9yced44z+Tmk/sV5b1SVyE6i+3UGaMar2BTnGt7AG/rC5nU/tqZDGWDMzfl4O35U=" target="_blank">The Quiet American</a> Graham Greene</b></p> <p> For about one hundred years - from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century - France ruled <a href="http://www.discover-vietnam.com/html/sightseeing.htm" target="_blank"><b>Vietnam</b></a> as a colony.</p> <p>During the Second World War, however, French soldiers fought elsewhere. Japan, taking advantage of Vietnam's excellent farmland, swept in to seize vast quantities of Vietnamese rice. It is estimated that millions of people died from starvation as a direct result of Japan's actions.</p> <p>More suffering awaited both the Vietnamese people and the French Foreign Legion after World War II was over. "The First Indochina War," fought between France and Vietnam, would end a century of French colonial ties to Indochina. </p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="quiet_american_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br></font> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>