Discover this first UPA Central Files publication to focus almost exclusively on Vietnam.
Intriguing documentation collected here covers a crucial period in Vietnamese and cold war history.
American diplomats and other officials were highly trained observers. And they found the over fifty nationalities and languages, nine ethnic minorities, and at least three distinct geographic regions of Vietnam challenging terrain. Their educated understanding of Vietnam's multicultural society and multifaceted political and economic structure, collected here, offers scholars the totality of 1960s Vietnam. Propaganda materials, International Control Commission reports, and French embassy memoranda and telegrams, also included, provide an even fuller perspective. But the fledgling democracy's route to stability would prove as circuitous as the region's Nine Dragons River.