Vietnam 1945
Subtitle: The Quest  for Power (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 3, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780520212282
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; c 1945 to c 1960; History - General History; History; History: World; Vietnam; Asia - Southeast Asia; History / General; Asia - General
First sentence: At 6:00 P.M. on 9 March 1945, the Japanese ambassador to Indochina, Matsumoto Shunichi, walked into the palatial Saigon offices of the French governor-general, Admiral Jean Decoux, to present an ultimatum.