Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight
Murray Sayle: Mao in Vietnam, 21 February 2002
China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75
by Qiang Zhai.
North Carolina, 304 pp., $49.95, April 2000,0 8078 4842 5 Show More
by Qiang Zhai.
North Carolina, 304 pp., $49.95, April 2000,
None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
by George Allen.
Ivan Dee, 296 pp., $27.50, October 2001,1 56663 387 7 Show More
by George Allen.
Ivan Dee, 296 pp., $27.50, October 2001,
No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam
by Larry Berman.
Free Press, 334 pp., $27.50, November 2001,0 684 84968 2 Show More
by Larry Berman.
Free Press, 334 pp., $27.50, November 2001,
“... with honour’ reminiscent of Mendès-France, and his devious National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger. Both had impeccable anti-Communist credentials, both had travelled widely (Nixon as Pepsi-Cola’s lawyer), and both grasped that there was no Communist monolith needing to be contained. In March 1969 there was heavy fighting on a disputed island ... ”
