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Embers of War - The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Paperback)
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Embers of War - The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Paperback)
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This 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 excellent intelligence information at their disposal, and
despite possessing their own private doubts about the prospects.
And, to an astonishing degree, Embers of War shows how the problems
Americans faced in Vietnam had been faced before them by the
French. In Bernard Fall's words, Americans were "dreaming different
dreams than the French but walking in the same footsteps." FREDRIK
LOGEVALL is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and
Professor of History at Cornell University, where he serves as
director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. "A
balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule
faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down
a road toward full-blown war."--Pulitzer Prize citation. ""Embers
of War", a remarkable new history of the first Vietnamese war by
Fredrik Logevall"The Economist. "Fredrik Logevall's excellent
book"Choosing War "(1999) chronicled the American escalation of the
Vietnam War in the early 1960s. With "Embers of "War, he has
written an even more impressive book about the French conflict in
Vietnam and the beginning of the American one. . . . It is the most
comprehensive history of that time. Logevall, a professor of
history at Cornell University, has drawn from many years of
previous scholarship as well as his own. And he has produced a
powerful portrait of the terrible and futile French war from which
Americans learned little as they moved toward their own engagement
in Vietnam." The New York Times Book Review-Editor's Choice.
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