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Interview with Doidge Estcourt Taunton, 1982 / by Richard Ellison and Doidge Estcourt Taunton.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Vietnam : a television history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coups d'état.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1983.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- British Brigadier Doidge Estcourt Taunton arrived in Saigon in 1945. He recalls the challenge of facilitating a peaceful surrender of the Japanese, restoring power to the French and balancing Vietnamese control over some areas of the city. He describes the September 1945 coup d'etat that would result in French control and recounts the death of American O.S.S officer Peter Dewey.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 5, 2012).
- OCLC:
- 827297674
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