Embers of War (139 page)

Authors: Fredrik Logevall

Tags: #History, #Military, #Vietnam War, #Political Science, #General, #Asia, #Southeast Asia

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PHOTO CREDITS

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Library of Congress;

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AP/Wide World Photos;

2.1:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum;

2.2:
AP/Wide World Photos;

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AP/Wide World Photos;

3.2:
Archimedes L. A. Patti Research Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida;

3.3:
private collection;

4.1:
Archimedes L. A. Patti Research Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida;

4.2:
Archimedes L. A. Patti Research Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida;

4.3:
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images;

5.1:
Service historique de la defense, Vincennes;

5.2:
Archives d’histoire contemporaire, Paris;

5.3:
ECPAD;

6.1:
Archives d’histoire contemporaire, Paris;

7.1:
Agence France Presse;

8.1:
Bettmann/Corbis;

9.1:
U.S. Air Force;

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private collection;

10.2:
The Vietnam Archive/Douglas Pike Photographic Collection;

11.1:
Service historique de la defense, Vincennes;

11.2:
ECPAD;

12.1:
ECPAD;

13.1:
AP/Wide World Photos;

14.1:
AP Photos/Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum;

14.2:
AP/Wide World Photos;

15.1:
Courtesy of Dorothy Fall from
Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar;

15.2:
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum;

16.1:
AP/Wide World Photos;

16.2:
Fox Photos/Getty Images;

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ECPAD;

17.2:
AFP PHOTO/VNA/FILES;

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Thomas D. Mcavoy/Tim Life Pictures/Getty Images;

18.2:
ECPAD;

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum;

20.1:
AP/Wide World Photos;

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Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images;

21.2:
AP/Wide World Photos;

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AP/Wide World Photos;

24.1:
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images;

25.1:
Archives d’histoire contemporaire, Paris;

25.2:
Archives d’histoire contemporaire, Paris;

25.3:
The Vietnam Archive/Douglas Pike Photographic Collection;

26.1:
AP/Wide World Photos;

26.2:
Bettmann/Corbis;

27.1:
AP/Wide World Photos

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

F
REDRIK
L
OGEVALL
is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. His previous books on the Vietnam struggle include the prizewinning
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in Vietnam
. He is also co-author of
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
and
A People & A Nation: A History of the United States
. A former Leverhulme Professor at the University of Nottingham and Mellon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, he also has taught at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: A VIETNAMESE IN PARIS