Embers of War (138 page)

Allen, George W.
None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.

Anderson, David L.
Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953–1961
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Appy, Christian G.
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
. New York: Viking, 2003.

Arnold, James R.
The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America’s Intervention in Vietnam
. New York: William Morrow, 1991.

Asselin, Pierre. “The Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the 1954 Geneva Conference: A Revisionist Critique.”
Cold War History
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Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R.
The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan
. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Berman, Larry.
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An
. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2007.

Bidault, Georges.
Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault
. Translated by Marianne Sinclair. New York: Praeger, 1968.

Billings-Yun, Melanie.
Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dienbienphu, 1954
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Bodard, Lucien.
The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

Bradley, Mark Philip.
Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Brocheux, Pierre.
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

——— and Daniel Hémery.
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954
. Translated by Ly Lan Dill-Klein et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Bui Diem with David Chanoff.
In the Jaws of History
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Bui Tin.
Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel
. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.

Buttinger, Joseph.
Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled
. 2 vols. New York: Praeger, 1967.

Cable, James.
The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina
. London: Macmillan, 1986.

Catton, Philip E.
Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in Vietnam
. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Chen Jian.
Mao’s China and the Cold War
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Cooper, Chester L.
In the Shadows of History: Fifty Years Behind the Scenes of Cold War Diplomacy
. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2005.

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The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam
. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.

Currey, Cecil B.
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
. Dulles, Va.: Potomac, 2005.

Dalloz, Jacques.
The War in Indo-China, 1945–1954
. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1990.

Davidson, Phillip B.
Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Devillers, Philippe and Jean Lacouture.
End of a War: Indochina, 1954
. New York: Praeger, 1969.

Dreifort, John E.
Myopic Grandeur: The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy toward the Far East, 1919–1945
. Kent, Oh.: Kent State University Press, 1991.

Duiker, William J.
Ho Chi Minh: A Life
. New York: Hyperion, 2000.

———.
U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Eden, Anthony.
Full Circle: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.

Elliott, David W. P.
The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930–1975
. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.

Elliott, Duong Van Mai.
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Fall, Bernard B.
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.

———, ed.
Ho Chi Minh on Revolution: Selected Writings 1920–1966
. New York: Praeger, 1967.

———.
Street Without Joy: Indochina at War 1946–1954
. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1961.

———.
The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military Analysis
. New York: Praeger, 1964.

Fall, Dorothy.
Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar
. Washington, D.C.: Potomac, 2006.

FitzGerald, Frances.
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

Gaiduk, Ilya V.
Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy Toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954–1963
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Gardner, Lloyd C.
Approaching Vietnam: From World War II Through Dienbienphu
. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

Goscha, Christopher E. “Courting Diplomatic Disaster? The Difficult Integration of Vietnam into the Internationalist Communist Movement (1945–1950).”
Journal of Vietnamese Studies
1 (February 2006).

Goscha, Christopher E. and Christian F. Ostermann, eds.
Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945–1962
. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009.

Greene, Graham.
The Quiet American
. New York: Viking, 1956.

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Ways of Escape
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.

Halberstam, David.
The Best and the Brightest
. New York: Random House, 1972.

Hammer, Ellen J.
The Struggle for Indochina, 1940–1955
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1955.

Herring, George C.
America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975
, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

——— and Richard H. Immerman. “Eisenhower, Dulles, and Dienbienphu: ‘The Day We Didn’t Go to War’ Revisited.”
Journal of American History
71 (September 1984).

Herzstein, Robert E.
Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Hess, Gary.
The United States’ Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940–1950
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Immerman, Richard. “Between the Unattainable and the Unacceptable: Eisenhower and Dienbienphu.” In
Reevaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the 1950s
, edited by Richard A. Melanson and David Mayers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Jackson, Julian.
France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944
. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Jacobs, Seth.
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957
. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.

Jennings, Eric.
Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940–1944
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Kahin, George McTurnan.
Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Kaplan, Lawrence S., Denise Artaud, and Mark Rubin, eds.
Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954–1955
. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.

Karnow, Stanley.
Vietnam: A History
, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Kattenburg, Paul.
The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy, 1945–75
. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1980.

Kimball, Warren F.
The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Lacouture, Jean.
Pierre Mendès France
. Translated by George Holock. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1984.

LaFeber, Walter. “Roosevelt, Churchill, and Indochina: 1942–1945.”
American Historical Review
80 (December 1975).

Langguth, A.J.
Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Lawrence, Mark Atwood.
Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

——— and Fredrik Logevall, eds.
The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Logevall, Fredrik.
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Mann, Robert.
A Grand Delusion: America’s Descent into Vietnam
. New York: Basic, 2001.

Marr, David G.
Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

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Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

McAlister, John T., Jr., and Paul Mus.
The Vietnamese and Their Revolution
. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Miller, Edward. “Vision, Power and Agency: The Ascent of Ngô Dình Diêm, 1945–54.”
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
35 (October 2004).

Morgan, Ted.
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
. New York: Random House, 2010.

Moyar, Mark.
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Nashel, Jonathan.
Edward Lansdale’s Cold War
. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

O’Ballance, Edgar.
The Indo-China War, 1945–1954
. London: Faber & Faber, 1964.

Oberdorfer, Don.
Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat
. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2003.

Patti, Archimedes L. A.
Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America’s Albatross
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Porch, Douglas.
The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force
. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Prados, John.
Operation Vulture
. New York: ibooks, 2002.

Quinn-Judge, Sophie.
Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years 1919–1941
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Rotter, Andrew J.
The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia
. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Roy, Jules.
The Battle of Dienbienphu
. Translated by Robert Baldick. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

Ruane, Kevin. “Anthony Eden, British Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Geneva Conference of 1954.”
Historical Journal
37 (1994).

Sainteny, Jean.
Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir
. Chicago: Cowles, 1972.

Schoenbrun, David.
As France Goes
. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Shaplen, Robert.
The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966
. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

Sheehan, Neil.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
. New York: Random House, 1988.

Sherry, Norman.
The Life of Graham Greene
, vol. 2:
1939–1955
. New York: Viking, 1995.

Shipway, Martin.
The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944–1947
. Providence, R.I.: Berghahn, 1996.

Shuckburgh, Evelyn.
Descent to Suez: Diaries, 1951–1956
. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.

Simpson, Howard R.
Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot
. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1994.

———.
Tiger in the Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam, 1952–1991
. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1992.

Spector, Ronald H.
Advice and Support: The Early Years of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1941–1960
. Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, 1985.