Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of CambodiaAn investigative account of the secret war in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and of the use of power by Nixon and Kissinger in Indo-Chinese foreign policy. |
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User Review - octafoil40 - LibraryThingAs 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
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User Review - KirkusIn 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
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| Title | Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia A touchstone book |
| Author | William Shawcross |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671230700, 9780671230708 |
| Length | 467 pages |
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