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Crooked Bamboo: Inside the Diem Regime and South Vietnam's Tragedy by Nguyen Thai, Justin Simundson, Larry Berman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Crooked Bamboo is a political memoir centered on Nguyen Thai's inside account of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem regime. Thai was a close personal aide for Diem as well as Director General of Vietnam Press, giving him significant access to Diem and other Ngo family members. Although the Diem era is the focus of the memoir, Nguyen Thai's post-1963 career as a government official, businessman, and confidant of several key South Vietnamese figures sheds light on the aftermath of the Diem regime and the dilemmas of South Vietnam's anti-communist elite throughout the Vietnam War. Thai's attempts to help bring the war to a negotiated end and his experiences as one of the first former South Vietnamese officials to return to Communist Vietnam also offer important reflections on the meaning of the war and its aftermath

Author

Nguyen Thai, Justin Simundson, Larry Berman

Publisher

Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781682830413

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14