Prelude to America's War in Vietnam
by
Philip E. Catton
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization....