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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
864

Originally published
  
2012

Page count
  
864

Publisher
  
Random House

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Publication date
  
2012

ISBN
  
978-0375504426

Author
  
Fredrik Logevall

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for History

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Fredrik Logevall books, Pulitzer Prize for History winners, Non-fiction books

Embers of war the fall of an empire and the making of america s vietnam


Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by the Cornell University historian Fredrik Logevall, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History. It also won the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. The book covers the Vietnam conflict right from the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference till 1959 when the first Americans soldiers are killed in an ambush near Saigon in Vietnam, focusing on the Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh.

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Embers of war the fall of an empire and the making of america s vietnam


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