I had the good fortune of hearing the author speak and then talking to him a bit about the Vietnam War. The book won the Pulitzer Prize. Excellent, especially in its "what if" tendencies. In June 1919, a young man from Vietnam set out to approach the world leaders gathered in Paris to present the...
Bidault’s personal stake in a successful outcome in Indochina went deeper than anyone else’s, since he had been right there at the center when the crucial early moves were made, first as foreign minister in de Gaulle’s Provisional Government in 1944–45, then as president in the summer and fall of...