WITHOUT HONOR DEFEAT IN VIETNAM CAMBODIA INDICTMENT OF THE WASHINGTON, SAIGON
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WITHOUT HONOR DEFEAT IN VIETNAM CAMBODIA "SUPERBA WELL-DOCUMENTED INDICTMENT OF THE WASHINGTON, SAIGON AND HANOI REGIMES FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARNOLD R ISAACS This stunning, authoritative account of one of the century's most harrowing human catastrophes-the fall of South Vietnam-was written by a journalist who spent the last years of the war in Indochina Based on firsthand observations, recently declassified data, interviews and field reports, it brings to light previously unreported aspects of the Vietnam story With cinematic verisimilitude, Arnold R Isaacs describes the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon, the atrocities committed y the Khmer Rouge and the plight of the boat people Within this powerful narrative lies a judicious assessment of US military and polit policies that led to the worst foreign policy failure in Americas history As long as there are political and ideological confrontations to be played out in small-country revolutions, Americans and their leaders must take this painful but necessary look back into one of the darkest chapters of their past WITHOUT HONOR succeeds so brilliantly that one almost wishes that all candidates for public office could be required to pass a public examination on its contents Gene Lyons, Newsweek A book to read for both its judgments and its descriptive powerIts prose is often so vivid that you find yourself transported back to that nightmarish time and place Jack Fuller, Chicago Tribune A solid, well-researched, well-documented volume Peter Kumpa, The Baltimore Evening Sun
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