![]() ![]() This is helpful because so often the American war in Vietnam seems to have begun begin with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. ![]() On one level, it is the backstory to America’s later overt but undeclared war in Vietnam. Logevall in Embers of War ends his marvelously researched and presented narrative in 1959. Embers of War, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in history, views these events through the eyes of the French, Vietnamese, and Americans. He now teaches at Cornell University and lectures internationally. He was born in Sweden, grew up in Canada, and educated in Canada and the U.S. To put Fredrik Logevall in either of these camps would be an injustice. Yet, French and American historians of these events have outnumbered their Vietnamese counterparts (the winners) by several orders of magnitude. ![]() France and America both lost wars to Vietnam in the thirty-year span from 1945-75. To say this cliché is perverse or worse is to give it more credence than it deserves. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s VietnamĪ common observation is that “victors” write history. ![]()
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