By Blood Spilt - Steele's Death March

Sergeant Steele stands on the ramparts of the Citadel in Lang Son, watching with growing unease as Japanese troops patrol the narrow streets and artillery points menacingly at his small French Foreign Legion unit. Under the uneasy truce between the French Vichy government and Japanese forces in Indochina, tensions are about to erupt into all-out war.

On March 9, 1945, the Japanese launched a coup d'état, Meigo Sakusen (Operation Bright Moon), attacking French garrisons across the country as ...