The Palace File: The Remarkable Story of the Secret Letters from Nixon and Ford to the President of South Vietnam and the American Prom

by Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter

Book Overview

Palace File, The, by Hung, Nguyen Tien And Jerrold L. Schecter This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060915722
• ISBN13: 9780060915728
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More relevant than ever. Good luck, Afghanistan!

The Palace File should be number one on Hamid Karzai's reading list! The promises made in secret between one nation's leader and another have little value, it seems. Some would argue that such secret pledges should never be made by the elected leader of a true democracy. "Our" sincere pledges never to abandon an ally and never to waste the blood sacrifices of American troops are well-documented in The Palace File. The documents speak for themselves. Those who doubt American staying power in the "war on terrorism" will find much ammunition for their arguments in a quick read of this sad tale of failed adventure in Vietnam. Our new but familiarly avid "nation builders" need to study The Palace File before they charge full-speed down the same slippery slope toward ignominy. This book has also been published in the Vietnamese language, and is a wonderful learning tool for students of Vietnamese who are preparing for official assignments in Vietnam.