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Author:
Trueheart, Charles, 1951-, author.
Title:
Diplomats at war : friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam Conflict / Charles Trueheart.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
346 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Trueheart, William C.,--1918-1992.
Nolting, Frederick E.,--Jr.,--1911-1989.
Trueheart, Charles,--1951-x Childhood and youth.
Ngô, Đình Diệm,--1901-1963--Assassination.
United States--Foreign Service--Officials and employees--Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
Diplomatic and consular service--United States--History--20th century.
Diplomats--United States--Biography.
United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Legends of the Fall -- Assignment Saigon -- Two Gentlemen of Virginia -- Sink or Swim -- Doubting Thomases -- Burning Arrow -- Out of Nowhere -- Malice in Wonderland -- The Guns of August -- Silent Treatment -- Waiting for the Generals -- All Saints' Day.
Summary:
"Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between his godfather, Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and his father, William Trueheart, second in command at the embassy, led to the breakdown of U.S.-South Vietnamese relations and a violent coup three weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0813951283
9780813951287
LCCN:
2023043135
Locations:
FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

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