Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia

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Fontana, 1980 - 467 pages
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As a Vietnam Veteran of the year 1967-1968, I was astounded to learn of President Nixon's secret and completely illegal foray into Cambodia all the while he kept the U.S. Congress ignorant of the ... Read full review

SIDESHOW: Kissinger, Nixon, And The Destruction Of Cambodia

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In 1969, Richard Nixon ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese sanctuaries in that formally neutral nation. Today, a decade later, Nixon is a President driven from office ... Read full review

Contents

FOREWORD
11
CAST OF CHARACTERS
15
THE SECRET
19
Copyright

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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
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About the author (1980)

William Shawcross (born 28 May 1946, in Sussex, England) is a widely renowned writer and broadcaster. Shawcross was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Washington Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1995 he wrote and presented the three-part BBC television series Monarchy and in 2002, to tie-in with the Queen¿s Golden Jubilee, he again wrote and presented a landmark four-part BBC television series, Queen and Country, a revealing and intimate portrait of the Queen, and an absorbing study of the changing face of monarchy and of Britain during the past half-century. He lives in London and Cornwall.

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TitleSideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia
Volume 6077 of Fontana paperbacks
AuthorWilliam Shawcross
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherFontana, 1980
Original fromIndiana University
Digitized16 Mar 2022
ISBN0006360777, 9780006360773
Length467 pages
  
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