President Ngo Dinh Diem and the US: His Overthrow and Assasination

Hoang Ngoc Thanh

ISBN 10: 0967505801 / ISBN 13: 9780967505800

Published by Tuan-Yen & Quan-Viet Mai-Nam Publishers, 1798

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: President Ngo Dinh Diem and the US: His Overthrow and Assasination
• Publisher: Tuan-Yen & Quan-Viet Mai-Nam Publishers
• Publication Date: 1798
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967505801
• ISBN 13: 9780967505800
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: LikeNew

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Synopsis

This book has been in preparation ever since 3 November 1963... [I]n 1968, the research and investigation for the book were resumed. But the preliminary findings couldn't be published due to threats from powerful elements implicated in the assassinations of the president and his brother. After the communist takeover in the South in April 1975, all the materials collected were destroyed or hidden. 6 years later the authors succeeded in fleeing the country... After further work and from memory the Vietnamese version of this book was published... Indeed the vast majority of the Vietnamese people like the other peoples everywhere don't wish to live under a totalitarian communist regime, if they have a choice. The question has been not to fuse nationalism and communism. Indeed communists have been utilizing and exploiting nationalism for their ends. Then South Viet Nam needed American aid in its war for survival to counter the assistance given the Hanoi Communists by the Soviet Union, the P