Intriguing ... It’s first-rate history that is thoroughly researched and includes 1,100 pages of declassified documents from the CIA, the US National Security Agency and State Department.
The text reads like an adventure novel, and readers will be drawn in. This work is significant and certainly belongs in every academic library, as well as most other libraries.
A paradigm-shifting work of vast research and scholarship ... Cheevers summarily chronicles the failed U.S. mission in Vietnam from perspectives that are both broad and narrow, recounting with precision and nuance the complete specter of confusion, chaos, and destruction.
An in-depth examination of the Kennedy administration’s role in the 1963 coup overthrowing the president of South Vietnam ... A shocking history of the politics and personalities behind one of America’s gravest foreign policy blunders.
