โ Logevall, Fredrik
๐ Fiction
๐
2012;2013
๐ Random House, Inc.;Random House Trade Paperbacks
๐ en-ca
โ 5 MB
๐ 2 views
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Embers of war: the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam
โ Scribed by Fredrik Logevall
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- Random House Trade pbk. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0375756477
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โฆ Synopsis
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world's powers and saw two of them--first France, then the United States--attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces. For France, the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire, while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day.
How did it happen? Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature, distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam. Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson. It...
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