The British and the Vietnam War
Subtitle: their way with LBJ
By: Nicholas Tarling
Contributors: NUS Press
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9789814722230
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Foreign relations; Politics and government; Diplomatic relations; Vietnamkrieg; Diplomatische Beziehungen; Internationale Politik; Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664
Description: "During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace. The thinking that lay behind these endeavours was often insightful and it is hard to argue that the attempt was not worth making, but the British government was able to exert little, if any, influence on a power with which it believed it had, and needed, a special relationship. Drawing on little-used papers in the British archives, Nicholas Tarling describes the making of Britain's Vietnam policy during a period when any compromise proposed by London was likely to be seen in Washington as suggestive of defeat, and attempts to involve Moscow in the process over-estimated the USSR's influence on a Hanoi determined on reunification."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-436) and index.

In English.