My Father the Spy is a tracking down of the old man, who’s poised somewhere between public and private life, deep in secrets. There are two reasons for writing this sort of memoir: as redistribution ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. America’s involvement in Vietnam’s civil war in 1962 and 1963 is not as well-known as later battles. The Tet ...

To PRESIDENT Ngo Dinh Diem and his family, the Buddhist crisis last summer was a cleverly contrived political conspiracy designed to bring down the government by a coup d’etat. They blamed the ...

Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963: A Vietnam marine celebrates on the streets after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...

In her first encounter, as an undergraduate in the ’70s, with the novel “The Quiet American,” Alice McDermott was struck both by Graham Greene’s then-prescient warning about America’s military ...