Search Books:

Join our mailing list:


Recent Articles

The Mystery Murder Case of the Century
by Robert Tanenbaum


Prologue
by Anna Godbersen


Songs of 1966 That Make Me Wish I Could Sing
by Elizabeth Crook


The Opposite of Loneliness
by Marina Keegan


Remembering Ethel Merman
by Tony Cointreau


The Eleven Nutritional Commandments for Joint Health
by Richard Diana


more>>





Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

by Mark Moyar

Published by Cambridge

Related articles:

Read Excerpt

##time## / ##duration## Author Interview

Buy Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 at AmazonBuy Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 at Barnes & NobleBuy Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 at Indie Bound


Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive U.S. troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.


pub date: 2006-08-31 | hardcover | 9780521869119