{"product_id":"anthony-eden-anglo-american-relations-and-kevin-ruane-9781350021198","title":"Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a \"united action\" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American \"special relationship\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this important study, Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Ruane, Matthew Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350021199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350021198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.73d","brand":"Kevin Ruane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941911593215,"sku":"9781350021198","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a5650f4b-db42-4331-be80-93fd285d12ff.jpg?v=1681455674","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anthony-eden-anglo-american-relations-and-kevin-ruane-9781350021198","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}