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The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan. By Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ISBN 0-7006-1431-1. Maps. Photographs. Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. x, 435. 834.95.
America's controversial World War II involvement with Ho Chi Minh and his communist dominated Viet Minh movement is described in this solid well-written work, the most detailed survey published on the subject. Specialists as well as general readers interested in intelligence in the second World War, modern Vietnamese history, and the roots of U.S. involvement in thirty years of subsequent conflict in Indochina will find this book of particular interest. The author has assimilated a huge amount of data: interviews, correspondence, and archival materials, as well as all of the essential published sources. Though not numerous, the photographs alone are...