商品簡介
A Perfect Tragedy is a narrative history of America’s involvement in Indochina aimed at the popular market. It covers the story from the end of World War II to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Viewing this American war as an outsider, different perspectives are offered. Prominently, controversies which American authors have found painful to address are not avoided. The manuscript also benefits from the latest research which the classic histories of the last generation missed. This includes the truth behind the events of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which opened the door to Washington’s entry into the war, and which can now be told thanks to recently declassified National Security Agency top secret material.
The history charts the course of America’s hesitant support for French Indochina; through the advisory missions following the 1954 Geneva Accords to the covert, limited war promoted in the Kennedy years; to Johnson’s total war; and finally to the liquidation of the American war under Nixon. The manuscript brings to life all the major figures, especially examining the human conflicts in the key protagonists who shaped the conflict.
