Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-337) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The Indonesian revolution -- 2. Communism and the republic -- 3. The Dutch attack on Yogyakarta -- 4. The Dutch transfer sovereignty -- 5. McCarthy, Lattimore and Cochran -- 6. Return to Indonesia -- 7. Struggle over Malaysia -- 8. Cornell and the coup -- 9. Opposition to the Vietnam War -- 10. Casualties and pacification, 1966/7 -- 11. Possibilities for peace, 1971 -- 12. North Vietnam, 1972 -- 13. Cambodian neutrality and the United States -- 14. Cambodia and the Vietnam War -- 15. Coup against Sihanouk -- 16. Invasion of Cambodia.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war and struggled to open the eyes of policy makers to the historical, political and military realities of the Vietnamese situation. Kahin also witnessed the reluctant involvement of Cambodia in the conflict, and the 1970 coup against Prince Sihanouk which paved the way for the Communist acce.
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Ebook Library
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EBL180869
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Title
Southeast Asia.
International Standard Book Number
0415299764
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Kahin, George McTurnan-- Homes and haunts-- Southeast Asia.