'Embers of War,' by Frederik Logevall To orthodox historians, the relative strength of the two Vietnamese sides meant that the tides of history worked against the United States, which fought a fundamentally unwinnable war.The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999), Logevall draws on a substantial secondary literature and archival research to analyze the interplay of Vietnamese nationalism with international upheavals marked by World War II, the Cold War and the...
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