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The lost mandate of heaven : the American betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Geoffrey D. T. (Author)
Other Authors: Schall, James V. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Ngô, Đình Diệm, > 1901-1963 > Assassination.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Vietnam.
Ngô, Đình Diệm, > 1901-1963.
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Assassination.
Diplomatic relations.
United States.
Vietnam.
1961 - 1975
Table of Contents:
  • Diplomacy in South Vietnam from the late 1950s to 1960
  • U.S. Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow
  • Enter Ambassador Frederick Nolting
  • The continuing Laotian question
  • The counterinsurgency plan
  • Policemen versus soldiers
  • The abrogation of Nolting's rapprochement
  • Nolting's rearguard action
  • The decline of the Nolting influence
  • The Buddhist crisis of 1963
  • Washington isolate Diem
  • Nolting's farewell
  • Washington moves for a coup.