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Diplomats at war : friendship and betrayal on the brink of the Vietnam conflict / Charles Trueheart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trueheart, Charles, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Miller Center studies on the presidency.
- Miller Center studies on the presidency
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trueheart, William C., 1918-1992--Childhood and youth.
- Trueheart, William C.
- Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., 1911-1989.
- Nolting, Frederick E.
- United States. Foreign Service--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
- Vietnam.
- United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- 2024.
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between his godfather, Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and his father, William Trueheart, second in command at the embassy, led to the breakdown of U.S.-South Vietnamese relations and a violent coup three weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Legends of the Fall
- 2. Assignment Saigon
- 3. Two Gentlemen of Virginia
- 4. Sink or Swim
- 5. Doubting Thomases
- 6. Burning Arrow
- 7. Out of Nowhere
- Photo Gallery
- 8. Malice in Wonderland
- 9. The Guns of August
- 10. Silent Treatment
- 11. Waiting for the Generals
- 12. All Saints' Day
- Endings
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Trueheart, Charles Diplomats at War
- ISBN:
- 9780813951294
- 0813951291
- OCLC:
- 1419872883
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