| Description |
635 p. : map ; 24 cm |
| Bib Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969) -- Evolution of a Strategy -- What the Nixon Administration Found -- Groping for a Strategy: The North Vietnamese Offensive and the Bombing of Cambodia -- Attempts at a Diplomatic Outcome -- Peace Initiatives -- The Beginning of Troop Withdrawals -- A Secret Meeting -- Another Reassessment -- The Unpacifiable Doves -- A Strategy Emerges -- Secret Negotiations and a Widening War -- The Secret Negotiations -- Special Advisor Le Duc Tho and the First Round of Talks -- Laos Interlude -- The Overthrow of Sihanouk -- Another Major Troop Withdrawal -- The Attack on North Vietnamese Sanctuaries -- The Cambodian Incursion -- The Domestic Travail -- The Balance Sheet -- Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail -- Madame Binh's Eight Points -- The Setting of a Strategy -- The Laos Operation -- Lam Son 719: The Military Operation -- Braving Domestic Opposition -- The Negotiations Are Resumed -- The South Vietnamese Presidential Election -- Revealing the Secret Talks -- Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring Offensive -- Diplomatic Maneuvers -- What Strategy? -- The Showdown -- The May 2 Secret Meeting -- The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam -- The Summit in the Balance -- From Stalemate to Breakthrough -- Testing the Stalemate -- A Visit to Saigon -- Interlude: Meetings of September 15 and 27 -- The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting -- The Troubled Road to Peace -- Interlude in Paris -- Consultation with Thieu -- Rumblings -- Showdown with Thieu -- The Journey Home -- "Peace Is at Hand" -- Election Interlude -- Haig Visits Saigon Again -- The Meetings with Le Duc Tho Resume -- The Breakdown of the Negotiations -- The Christmas Bombing -- Negotiations Resume -- The January Round of Negotiations -- Thieu Relents -- Peace at Last -- A Visit to Hanoi -- Enforcement and Aid -- The Thieu Visit -- Watergate and Enforcement -- The Search for Peace in Cambodia -- The Aborted Chinese Mediation -- The Negotiations Unravel -- Ford and Vietnam -- The Strangulation of South Vietnam -- Hanoi Resumes the Offensive -- The End of the Road -- The Collapse of Cambodia -- The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia -- The Final Collapse -- The End of Vietnam -- The Debate over Evacuation -- The Search for a Political Solution -- The Evacuation -- The Last Day |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Diplomatic history
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia
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| ISBN |
074321532X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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