Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521869119)

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.

Author: Mark Moyar
ISBN-10: 0521869110
ISBN-13: 9780521869119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2006
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.16w x 1.53d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2006 pg. 149
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 25
Library Journal 09/01/2006 pg. 160
Foreword 11/01/2006 pg. 43