Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
by Fredrik Logevall
🏆 Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize jury described Harvard professor Logevall’s Embers of War as a “balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.”
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