![]() ![]() However, Roosevelt died and Truman was primarily concerned with confronting the Soviets in Europe. ![]() Ho, in fact, had great fondness for America. ![]() A professor of history at Cornell, Logevall uses recently released diplomatic archives from several countries to paint a comprehensive portrait of the complexities of Vietnam’s place in international affairs from the end of World War Two up until the early 1960s and America’s assumption of primary responsibility in that region.Įmbers of War is a great example of the historic principle that “things didn’t have to work out the way they did.” Ho Chi Minh was more of a Vietnamese nationalist that a committed communist and Franklin Roosevelt was adamantly opposed to the restoration of European empires in the post World War Two era. I just finished reading Frederik Logevall’s Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2012. ![]()
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