702: 3/4 Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall
Image: Victory in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, “a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.” Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall (https://www.amazon.com/Fredrik-Logevall/e/B001IXMD9Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) 0Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France's final years in Indochina—and describes how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam-ebook/dp/B007EED4P8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=