دانلود کتاب 55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam

The last and longest days of our longest war are vividly recreated for the first time in one of the most ambitious works of panoramic on-the-scene reporting you will ever have a chance to read. Drawing on seven years of experience in Vietnam as a soldier and UPI correspondent, Alan Dawson — the last full-time news service reporter to leave Saigon, and then only when requested to do so six months after the war ended —recounts the last 55 days of the most cata-clysmic military and political event of our time. Getting inside the war councils of the top North Vietnamese leadership, the Saigon political machine, and the American "advisory board," Dawson shows how and why the North won the war through two crucial changes in their previously unsuccessful strategy

Writing scores of vignettes of action, attack, retreat, escape, and personal tragedy, Dawson compresses hundreds of interviews and eye-witness accounts into brutal, moving, tragic, and heroic stories.

Day-by-day and hour-by-hour, battle-by-battle through evacuation and the after-math, Dawson uncovers the hasty planning, official deception, the blunders and blind-ness that marked the end of the most disastrous and misunderstood intervention in America's history.

Including literally hundreds of never-before-told news stories— many of which are headline makers— here is the
nearest approach we are ever likely to have to an all-seeing observer's total picture of the fall of South Vietnam.

About the Author

Alan Dawson is a third-generation news-man who has spent seven years in Vietnam. After two years as an American soldier, he worked first as a Metromedia reporter, and then as UPI audio correspondent and news staffer. He became Saigon Bureau Manager for UPI during his last two years in Vietnam. He is now UPI Bureau Chief in Bangkok. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Alan Dawson is now an American citizen. He and his Chinese- Vietnamese wife have twin sons.