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Book Synopsis‘Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955’ offers a systematic approach to pertinent international politics, providing a historiography and assessing the impact of events such as the Cold War and the Second World War within the context of the governments of Churchill and Eden. Revisiting Churchill's wartime helmsmanship in order to shed further light on his post-war administration, Nông Dân provides a greater historical awareness of the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China and South East Asia.
Trade Review‘[A]s much a study of the internal policymaking operations of the Foreign Office as a study of Churchill and Eden. […] Nong provides good coverage of the large cast of characters in this story.’ -Christopher H. Sterling, ‘Finest Hour: The Journal of Winston Churchill’
Table of ContentsMaps; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2; The War Against Japan Had the South East Asia Department Emerge in the Foreign Office; Chapter 3: The East of Suez Review: Détente for South East Asia?; Chapter 4: The British Path Towards Negotiations on Indo-China; Chapter 5: The British Path Towards the Partition of Vietnam; Chapter 6: The Annamitic or Vietnamized Divide and Barrier of the 'Smaller Dragon'; Chapter 7: Conclusion
