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Informationen zum Autor David Halberstam (1934-2007) was the author of 20 books, the last 14 of which have been national best-sellers. His most recent book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, is about the Chinese entry into the Korean War. He was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam and was a member of the elective Society of American Historians. Klappentext Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam-the Kennedy/Diem era-remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal provides crucial background information that was unavailable when the book was written. Zusammenfassung Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam-the Kennedy/Diem era-remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition! his... Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Edging Toward Calamity: Vietnam in the Early 1960sChapter 1: Coming into a Troubled LandChapter 2: Latter-Day Mandarins: The Ngo FamilyChapter 3: A Strange Alliance: The Americans and DiemPart II: The War in the DeltaChapter 4: In the Field with the ARVNChapter 5: Finding an Elusive FoeChapter 6: Disaster: The Battle of Ap BacChapter 7: Collapse in the DeltaPart III: The Fall of the Diem RegimeChapter 8: The Buddhist Revolt BeginsChapter 9: The Raid on the PagodasChapter 10: A Slow Change in American PolicyChapter 11: The Saigon Press ControversyChapter 12: The Final Days of Ngo Dinh DiemChapter 13: What Should Be Done in Vietnam?Epilogue: Return to Vietnam
