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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- First published
- 2012
- ISBN
- 1299127509
What is this book about?
Fredrik Logevall’s history covers the conflict in Vietnam from the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 to 1959, when the first American soldiers were killed in an ambush near Saigon. Its focus is the Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh.
Source: Embers of War
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