Description

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This is a collection of personal reminiscences and first-hand recollections of diplomatic service in war-torn Indochina beginning in the late 1950s with the International Supervisory Commission and concluding with the last days of that terrible and desperate war in Viet Nam.

About the Author

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Dr. Arthur E. Blanchette has been active for many years in the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and in the Canadian Association of Geosciences and History. A former director of the Historical Division of the Department of External Affairs, his publications include Canadian Foreign Policy: 1955-1965 (1977); Canadian Foreign Policy: 1966-1976 (1980); Canadian Foreign Policy: 1976-1992 (1994); Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000: Major Documents and Speeches in the present Rideau Series of which this volume is #2.