Diplomats at War by Charles Trueheart - 9780813953717

Diplomats at WarFriendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict\nAuthor(s): Charles Trueheart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813953717, 978-0813953717\nSynopsis\nFor two Americans in Saigon in 1963, the personal and the political combine to spark the drama of a lifetime.\n\n Before it spread into a tragic war that defined a generation, the conflict in Vietnam smoldered as a guerrilla insurgency and a diplomatic nightmare. Into this volatile country stepped Frederick Fritz Nolting, the US ambassador, and his second-in-command, William Bill Trueheart, immortalized in David Halberstams landmark work The Best and the Brightest and accidental players in a pivotal juncture in modern US history.\n\nDiplomats at War is a personal memoir by former Washington Post reporter Charles TrueheartBills son and Noltings godsonwho grew up amid the events that traumatized two families and an ent.