Praise for "Embers of War
""A monumental history . . . a widely researched and eloquently written account of how the U.S. came to be involved in Vietnam . . . certainly the most comprehensive review of this period to date.""--Wall Street Journal"
"Magesterial.""--""Foreign Affairs"
"A remarkable new history . . . Logevall skilfully explains everything that led up to Vietnam's fatal partition in 1954 . . . [and] peppers the grand sweep of his book with vignettes of remarkable characters, wise and foolish.""--""The Economist"
"[A] superbly written and well-argued reinterpretation of our tragic experience in Vietnam."--"Booklist
""Huge and engrossing . . . [Logevall] writes with an ambitious sweep and an instinct for pertinent detail. . . . If Logevall's earlier work stood up well in a crowded field, "Embers of War" stands alone. . . . What if ["Embers"] had been mandatory reading for Kennedy and his policy makers?"--"The National Interest"
"[Logevall] masterfully presents the war's roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Fascinating, beautifully-written . . . Logevall's account provides much new detail and important new insights. . . . It is impossible not to read the book without being struck by contemporary parallels."--"Foreign Policy"
"An encompassing, lucid account of the 40-year arc in which America's Southeast Asian adventure became inevitable . . . Logevall's prose is clean, his logic relentless, his tone unsparing, his vision broad and deep, his empathy expansive."--"Vietnam Magazine"
"Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France's nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire."--Neil Sheehan, author of "A Bright Shining Lie, " winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award