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Robert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on Americas unsuccessful Vietnam venture from 1962 to the end of the war. This memoir of his full career emphasizes his Vietnam years, covering his postings in Europe and assignments as ambassador to Malaysia, 1977-80, and to Cte dIvoire, 1983-86.

When the author went to Vietnam in 1956 to complete his PhD in anthropology, he didn't realize he would be there for most of the next eighteen years through the entire Vietnam War. He worked with the country folk of the Mekong Delta for several years. This title presents the studies of these independent, brave, and misunderstood people.

New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them.

In May 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company under the command of an Australian army captain, supported by a US Marine artillery detachment, occupied an old French fort on a hill known as Ngok Tavak. This title presents the story of one key battle - a microcosm of what went wrong in the war.

Tran Van Nhut grew up with a great love for his country's history and served in the Army of South Vietnam from the Republics inception in 1954 until its demise in 1975. In 1970, he was appointed province chief of Binh Long (Peaceful Dragon) Province and commander of its Regional, Popular, and People Self Defense Forces.

Based on archival research and interviews with more than forty sailors who participated in Task Force 90, this title illuminates a mission that has been all but forgotten and also explores how the initial humanitarian involvement of the United States in Vietnam eventually led to massive military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.