Decent Interval :An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

Publication subTitle :An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

Author: Snepp > Frank  

Publisher: University Press of Kansas‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9780700620654

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700612130

Subject: K333.52 American backers of SouthVietnam war - era (1954 ~ 1975)

Keyword: 外交、国际关系,美洲史,军事

Language: ENG

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Description

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America's final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA's cause but was disillusioned by the agency's treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quartercentury later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.

Chapter

Principal Cast of Characters

Part I: First Rites

Homecoming

A Great Day

In Good Faith

Leaves from a Pocket Notebook

Son of Cease-Fire

Martin's Embassy

Map: The "Third Vietnam"

Nibblers and Anti-Nibblers

Fiscal Whores

Part II: The Unraveling

Improvisatory Offensive

Map: Government Military Regions

Map: Improvisatory Offensive Begins

A Thousand Cuts

Hail-Fellow

Pyrrhic Victories

Blossoming Lotus

Map: Three NVA Divisions Advance on Ban Me Thuot

Light at the Top

Map: Phu's Army Withdraws from Highlands

Glass Mountain

Map: Planned Government Defense Lines, Late March

Black Box

Cannonball to Papa Lima

Map: Communist Gains, Beginning of Last Week in March

Ides of March

Map: Danang

Piece of My Tongue

Map: Five NVA Corps Launch Ho Chi Minh Campaign, Early April

Part III: Collapse

Primary Responsibility

Limp Little Rags

The Bombing

Spotlighting

Eagle Pull

Discarded Luxury

Map: NVA Pressure Points, Mid-April

Map: Downtown Saigon

Worst Case

Controlled Conditions

Panic Button

A Bargain Whose Day Has Passed

Secret Caller

Polarized Thinking

High-Class Chauffeur

Our Turn

They're in the Halls

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

Postscript: Internal Hemorrhaging

CIA's Official Recommendation for Honor and Merit Award for Frank Snepp

Index

Back Cover

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