TU DO

A Novel

by Austin Nguyen

From the sun-baked shores of French West Africa to the humid jungles of Indochina, Amadou Diallo, a Tirailleur Sénégalais, is drafted into a war that is not his own. Bound to the uniform of the French colonial army, he is forced to fight and bleed for an empire that never considered him an equal. Amidst the violent collapse of French colonial rule in Vietnam, Amadou must confront the ghosts of his past and the true cost of freedom.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1."Mangoes and the French Alphabet"

2."All That France Had Not Yet Broken"

3."November Paris, All That Gray"

4."Letters Smelling of Groundnut Oil"

5."Blue Wool and a Bright Brass Button"

6."The Burning of the Rice Fields"

7."Letters from Thiès"

8."Ambush at Route Coloniale 4"

9."The Monsoon Offensive"

10."A Brother's Blood"

11."Echoes of the Somme"

12."The Deserter's Tale"

13."Shadows in the Jungle"

14."The Fall of Dien Bien Phu"

15."Captivity and the Red River"

16."The March to the Camp"

17."Fever and Resistance"

18."The Commandant's Offer"

19."Kofi's Last Words in the Mud"

20."Jasmine Tea with Captain Minh"

21."The Discharge and the Ghost"

22."Amadou, Broom, Blue Jumpsuit"