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Saigon at War - South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Paperback)
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Saigon at War - South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
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During South Vietnam's brief life as a nation, it exhibited
glimmers of democracy through citizen activism and a dynamic press.
South Vietnamese activists, intellectuals, students, and
professionals had multiple visions for Vietnam's future as an
independent nation. Some were anticommunists, while others
supported the National Liberation Front and Hanoi. In the midst of
war, South Vietnam represented the hope and chaos of decolonization
and nation building during the Cold War. U.S. Embassy officers,
State Department observers, and military advisers sought to
cultivate a base of support for the Saigon government among local
intellectuals and youth, but government arrests and imprisonment of
political dissidents, along with continued war, made it difficult
for some South Vietnamese activists to trust the Saigon regime.
Meanwhile, South Vietnamese diplomats, including anticommunist
students and young people who defected from North Vietnam,
travelled throughout the world in efforts to drum up international
support for South Vietnam. Drawing largely on Vietnamese language
sources, Heather Stur demonstrates that the conflict in Vietnam was
really three wars: the political war in Saigon, the military war,
and the war for international public opinion.
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