ePub A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter by Frances Dallam Peter in History

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During the Vietnam War; Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices―including self-immolation―to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war; the insurgency; and U.S. intervention; and lays bare the dissension within the U.S. military. The Lotus Unleashed is one of the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.