Böcker av James Waite

Good Quality Colour Pictures, Interesting Informative Text, Useful to Modellers, Interesting New Facts

A full color 120 page hardback photographic album by renowned photographer James Waite of the narrow gauge railway lines of the American continents in the 21st century.

The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be treated as international history, this volume brings in Vietnamese and other global agents, including New Zealand, Australia, and especially Britain, as well as China and the Soviet Union. Importantly, the book also argues that the successful French withdrawal from Vietnam ¿ a political defeat for the Eisenhower administration ¿ helped to avert outright warfare between the major powers, although with very mixed results for the inhabitants of Vietnam who faced partition and further bloodshed.