Guerrilla diplomacy
Subtitle: the NLF's foreign relations and the Viet Nam War
By: Robert K. Brigham.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miè̂n nam Việt Nam.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Diplomatic history.
Description: In 1960 revolutionaries in South Viet Nam created the National Liberation front, a political and military organization committed to overthrowing the Saigon government and liberating Viet Nam south of the seventeenth parallel. The role of the NLF during the war has been hotly debated, with officials in Washington claiming from the outset that the NLF was merely a puppet of Hanoi.

Based on over a hundred interviews with former Communist cadre and high-ranking Party officials as well as extensive archival research in Viet Nam, Robert K. Brigham's is a definitive work that provides a focus on the NLF not found elsewhere. It contributes greatly to our understanding of the Viet Nam War and encourages a reassessment of that conflict.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-212) and index.