Operation Vulture: America's Dien Bien Phu (2002) By John Prados
 
This is the little known story of how the American President and his cabinet carried the United States to the brink of war in Indochina and potentially China—in 1954! Americans and the U.S. were intimately involved in the key battle that ended the French occupation of Vietnam. Operation Vulture tells the story of secret U.S. efforts to sustain the French in Indochina, of the men who labored alongside the French military, of the frantic behind-closed-door meetings and confrontations in Washington as diplomats sought the American’s intervention, and of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s reluctant step back from sending in the Marines and using atomic bombs.
 
Presenting the story from the U.S., French, and Vietnamese points of view, with text on almost every international facet of the Dien Bien Phu battle.  It provides the most detailed treatment of the secret plan to drop tactical nuclear weapons there.  It includes fresh material on American naval and air operations, on the CIA and French intelligence, on U.S. and French efforts to relieve the besieged fortress, on the historical disputes over the diplomacy of Dien Bien Phu and Geneva, and on the cover-up of Eisenhower era records of these events. 
 
Soft Cover
335 pages
In Good condition