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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY * 109
Cove, Allan B. (ed.}, Conflict in Indo-China and International Reper-
cussions: A Documentary History, 1945-1955. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell
University Press, 1956. A useful colleciion of documents pertaining to
both internal and international events.
Famsank, John K., The Unired Siates and China. New York, Viking
Press C-108 (paper), 1958 ed, 348 pp. Essential background for the
present situation, A standard work by a leading Harvard specialist.
An excellent introduction to modern China.
Fart, Betnard B., Street without Joy: From the Indochina War to the
War in Viet-Nam. Harrisburg, Pa., Stackpole, 4th rev. ed.. 1964. Pri-
marily a military history of the Indochina war, 1946-54, with
parallels in the new war.
———, The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military History. New
York, Praeger, 5th rev. ed., 1965. A description and analysis of
developments im Vietnam carrying the story through early 1964. It
South and North and has an excellent biography of Ho Chi Minh
and others. This is one of the most useful and comprehensive
coverages,
FirzGeratp, C. P., The Chinese View of Thetr Place in the World.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1964. 72 pp. Traces the connec-
tion between China’s past and present pretensions to world leadership.
GETTILEMAN, Marvin E. (ed.), Vietnam: History, Documents and
Opinions on a Major World Crisis. New York, Fawcett World Library,
1965. An extremely useful compilation of sections of books, articles,
and important documents that provide a good coverage of the back-
ground and conduct of the French war, the Geneva Agreements, the
Diem administration, and the increasing American involvement. This
is a helpful next step for those who wish to look further into questions
raised tn this book and the background which conditioned the Amer-
ican involvement. (Paperback.)
HaveerstaM, David, The Making of a Quagmire. New York, Random |
House, 1965, An excellent account, much of it first-hand, of political
and military events in South Vietnam from 1961 through 1964, with
probably the best analysis available of the 1963 crisis and the fall of
Diem. The writer is a correspondent for the New York Times who
won a Pulitzer Prize for this book,
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