Vietnam's Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963

by Geoffrey Stewart

Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ng Đ nh Diệm's presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107097886
• ISBN13: 9781107097889
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"