Vietnam and beyond : a diplomat's Cold War education / Robert Hopkins Miller
- Bib ID:
- 2218819
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Miller, Robert Hopkins
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, c2002
- xix, 247 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0896724913
- Series:
- Modern Southeast Asia series.
- Summary:
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"Robert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on America's unsuccessful Vietnam venture - from 1962 to the end of the war. This memoir of his career emphasizes his Vietnam years but also covers his postings in Europe and assignments as ambassador to Malaysia, 1977-80, and to Cote d'Ivoire, 1983-86." "During the war Miller was a member of the mission to Saigon and to the Paris peace negotiations. As one involved in the events of those years, he provides us with fascinating and informative observations of such luminaries as Maxwell Taylor, Henry Cabot Lodge, Philip Habib, William Bundy, David Bruce, Robert Komer, and the South Vietnamese leadership and offers new insights into the conduct of diplomacy during the war. He describes the internal debates and frequent arguments, the tensions and the anguish that went on below the top policy levels in Washington."
"Miller supplements personal recollections with documentation from published accounts and official files to give a full picture of life in the Foreign Service during peace and war. He reveals how one diplomat's thinking on Vietnam evolved as America's frustrations grew, and he conveys a sense of how we became entangled in a major conflict."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Modern Southeast Asia Series Foreword
- ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series Foreword
- Introduction - The Setting
- 1. Prelude to Service
- 2. From NATO to the Congo
- 3. The Cold War Turned Hot
- 4. The Home-Front War
- 5. Peace Talks in Paris
- 6. The Fighting Ends
- 7. Aftermath
- 8. Last Assignments, Retirement, and a Return to Vietnam.
- Notes:
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- "An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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