High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Austria, he moved with his family to France as a child after Germany`s annexation, where he started fighting with the French Resistance at age 16, and later the French Army during World War II.