Title: Why Viet Nam? :
Authors: Patti, Archimedes L. A.
Date: 1980
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xx, 612 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. maps [on lining paper] ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Pt. 1. Washington: 2. ...(Roosevelt-Chuchill-Chiang ; Exit Stilwell, enter Wedemeyer) ; 3. Indochina (FDR and colonialism ; The French position) ; 4. The unintelligible intelligence community ; 5. OSS: The French Indochina desk (French Escamotage casts shadows ; From Catroux to Decoux ; Giraudistes and Gaullistes ; Mordant's "Resistance" ; Japanese reaction) ; 6. The Americans discover Ho Chi Minh (GBT : The Gordon group ; OSS and "Mr. Ho" ; Ho meets Chennault) -- pt. 2. Kunming: 7. What Washington did not know ("General" Ho's emissary) ; 8. The new French problem (The 9 March coup) ; 9. A tour of the China border (AGAS house ; Mr. Wang Yeh-Li ; Sabattier's army ; A portrait of the Colon) ; 10. A "Think tank" session (The OSS team ; Carbonado ; DeGaulle and the Russian orbit) ; 11. The reluctant ally (Euro-Asiatic conflict ; Sainteny's M.5 ; M.5 gets official status) ; (Con.) 12. "Trusteeship" redefined (De Gaulle pressures Truman ; What happened at Yalta?) ; 13. The "Deer" team at Kim Lung (The only alternative-The Viet Minh ; Ho's jungle lair) ; 14. Historic decisions (Decision at Potsdam-16th parallel ; A third force in Tonkin ; The party convention at Tan Trao ; The people's national congress) -- pt. 3. Hanoi: 16. ...(Hotel Metropole ; General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi) ; 18. ...(The prisoners-of-war ; The Soviet representative) ; 19. ...(The Saigon "revolution" ; Political warfare) ; 20. ...(Sainteny wants to meet Ho) ; 21. French diplomacy at Low Tide (A French bribe for the Americans) ; 25. On the eve of independence (A special brand of communism ; Dinner at Bac Bo palace) ; 26. Indepence day (Black Sunday in Saigon) ; 27. ...(The French commmissioners ; Lu Han's advance party) ; 28. In search of the Truman policy (Project Embankment) ; 29. ...(Postwar plan for OSS) ; (Con.) 30. Warlords and carpetbaggers (Chinese chameleons ; Some French liberals ; Hsiao Wen : The KMT agent ; Lu Han and the spoilers) ; 31. DRV (Southern opposition ; Japanese clandestine apparatus) ; 32. South of the 16th parallel (Cedile's coup ; First American casualty) ; 33. ... (Tilting-Lu Han vs. the KMT ; Ho's contingency plans ; Hanoi-Tangiers of the east) ; 34. End of mission (The Japanese surrender) -- pt. 4. ...Charts of communist organizations.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.; United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.; United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.; Vietnam--History--1945-1975.