Kimloan Vu-Hill’s Coolies into Rebels represents a long overdue examination of Vietnamese participation in France’s struggles during the First World War. Using primarily French archival sources, the author traces the process by which Vietnamese men were recruited in Indochina for overseas labor or military service in France during the period between 1915 and 1919. This is a story that has not previously been told (indeed it represents barely a footnote in most modern scholarship), and Kim Loan Vu-Hill remedies this in successful and straightforward fashion.