The Prevailing Wind: Witness in Indo-China
London: Methuen & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 392, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, tape residue on spine. Partial sticker on rear endpaper. This work is a personal testimony of events in Laos, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam, and Thailand since the first Geneva conference on Indo-China in 1954. Michael Field was a witness of the development of the ill-fated Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam, the collapse of Western plans to make Laos "a bastion against Communism, " and the consolidation of Cambodian neutrality. Condition: good, fair.
Keywords: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam War, Indo-China, Sihanouk, Boun Oum, Geneva Conference, Pathet Lao, Viet Minh, Cambodia
[Book #41364]
Price: $40.50