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The Road Not Taken - Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Road Not Taken - Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

By Max Boot

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Praised as a "superb scholarly achievement" (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot's role as a "master chronicler" (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908-1987) from historical ignominy to "restore a sense of proportion" to this "political Svengali, or 'Lawrence of Asia' "(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Green...Show more

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2019

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The Road Not Taken - Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

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