Research Catalog

Title

The British and the Vietnam War : their way with LBJ / Nicholas Tarling.

Author

Tarling, Nicholas

Publication

• Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

NUS Press, publisher.

Description

x, 451 pages : map; 23 cm

Summary

"During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace. The thinking that lay behind these endeavours was often insightful and it is hard to argue that the attempt was not worth making, but the British government was able to exert little, if any, influence on a power with which it believed it had, and needed, a special relationship. Drawing on little-used papers in the British archives, Nicholas Tarling describes the making of Britain's Vietnam policy during a period when any compromise proposed by London was likely to be seen in Washington as suggestive of defeat, and attempts to involve Moscow in the process over-estimated the USSR's influence on a Hanoi determined on reunification."

Subjects

• Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Great Britain
• United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1964-1979
• United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-436) and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-5571

ISBN

• 9789814722230
• 9814722235

OCLC

951206212

Author

Tarling, Nicholas, author.

Title

The British and the Vietnam War : their way with LBJ / Nicholas Tarling.

Publisher

Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-436) and index.

Added Author

NUS Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5571