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The British and the Vietnam War : their way with LBJ / Nicholas Tarling.
Van Pelt Library DS558.6.G7 T37 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarling, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Great Britain.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1964-1979.
- Great Britain.
- International relations.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- Politics and government.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 451 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace. The thinking that lay behind these endeavours was often insightful and it is hard to argue that the attempt was not worth making, but the British government was able to exert little, if any, influence on a power with which it believed it had, and needed, a special relationship. Drawing on little-used papers in the British archives, Nicholas Tarling describes the making of Britain's Vietnam policy during a period when any compromise proposed by London was likely to be seen in Washington as suggestive of defeat, and attempts to involve Moscow in the process over-estimated the USSR's influence on a Hanoi determined on reunification." --back cover.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Election Year 39
- Washington Communiqué 45
- A Cable Proposal 52
- De Gaulle 58
- British Critique 69
- Tonkin 74
- Chapter 2 Wilson and Johnson 81
- Talks with Rusk 91
- Preparing for the Prime Minister's Visit 92
- The First Wilson Visit 110
- Chapter 3 Phone Call 115
- Flaming Dart and Combustible Conversation 118
- Cutting Losses? 123
- Russian Initiative 128
- Rolling Thunder 140
- Stewart's Visit to Washington 144
- Conference on Cambodia? 151
- Baltimore 154
- Wilson Back in Washington 158
- Bureaucratic Practice 159
- Gordon Walker 169
- Chapter 4 Mission Improbable 172
- Robert Thompson 181
- Non-aligned Countries 189
- Commonwealth Peace Mission 192
- The Davies Mission 205
- Ground Troops 210
- Chapter 5 Pause 216
- Evacuation? 220
- The Prospects 224
- A Negotiated Solution? 233
- Exchanges with the Americans 247
- Christmas Pause 250
- New Assessments 254
- The End of the Pause 260
- Wilson in Moscow 265
- Chapter 6 Dissociation 271
- More Arguments 282
- Lord Head 285
- John Addis 287
- Wilson and 'Dissociation' 292
- Wilson in Moscow Again 296
- Wilson in Washington Again 300
- Chapter 7 Kosygin Week 309
- Brown and Harriman 312
- Brown in Moscow 317
- Marigold 320
- Preparing for Talks with Kosygin 325
- The Kosygin Talks 326
- Last-Minute Proposal 345
- Aftermath 347
- Chapter 8 Committed Detachment Brown in Moscow Again 358
- Wilson in Washington Again 360
- San Antonio 363
- Cabinet Paper 364
- Tet and Talks 375.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789814722230
- 9814722235
- OCLC:
- 951206212
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