Misalliance - Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor Edward Miller is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Klappentext Diem¿s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone by either American arrogance or Diem¿s stubbornness. Edward Miller argues that this misalliance was more than just a joint effort to contain communism. It was also a means for each side to shrewdly pursue its plans for nation building in South Vietnam. Zusammenfassung Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone by either American arrogance or Diem’s stubbornness. Edward Miller argues that this misalliance was more than just a joint effort to contain communism. It was also a means for each side to shrewdly pursue its plans for nation building in South Vietnam.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Miller, Edward Garvey Miller
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674072985
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07298-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Vietnam, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, USA, Vietnamkrieg, Moderne Kriegsführung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Specific wars and campaigns, Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War