Embers Of War: The Fall Of An Empire And The Making Of America's Vietnam

Embers Of War: The Fall Of An Empire And The Making Of America's VietnamThis monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? To answer that question Fredrik Logevall traces the forty year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959. Using fresh archives in Washington, Hanoi, and Paris, Cornell University Professor of History Fredrik Logevall shows how senior French and United States officials proved unwilling to confront reality in Vietnam, despite having

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