Diplomats at war : friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam Conflict / Charles Trueheart.
Title:
Diplomats at war : friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam Conflict / Charles Trueheart.
ISBN:
9780813951287
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Publication Information:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2024]
Physical Description:
343 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Legends of the Fall -- Assignment Saigon -- Two Gentlemen of Virginia -- Sink or Swim -- Doubting Thomases -- Burning Arrow -- Out of Nowhere -- Malice in Wonderland -- The Guns of August -- Silent Treatment -- Waiting for the Generals -- All Saints' Day.
Summary:
"Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between his godfather, Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and his father, William Trueheart, second in command at the embassy, led to the breakdown of U.S.-South Vietnamese relations and a violent coup three weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1399530563
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