The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam [First edition] 9780871409416, 9780871409430, 0871409410

Max Boot positions Lansdale against the American twentieth century and evocatively charts Lansdale's itinerant upbr

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English Pages l, 717 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Year 2018

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam [First edition]
9780871409416, 9780871409430, 0871409410

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Edward Geary

Table of contents :
Prologue: The day of the dead: Saigon, November 1-2, 1963 --
Introduction: The misunderstood man --
Ad man (1908-1945) --
Colonel Landslide (1945-1954) --
National builder (1954-1956) --
Washington warrior (1957-1963) --
Bastard child (1964-1968) --
The beaten man (1968-1987) --
Afterword: Landalism in the twenty-first century.

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