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Embers Of War (novel)
''Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam'' is a 2012 book by historian Fredrik Logevall, then a professor at Cornell University. The book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. The book covers the Vietnam conflict right from the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference till 1959, when the first American soldiers are killed in an ambush near Saigon in Vietnam, focusing on the Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh. Reviews * Alan BrinkleyThe New York Times * Scott MidgleyReviews in History * References 2012 non-fiction books 21st-century history books Pulitzer Prize for History-winning works Vietnam War books American history books American political books Random House books {{Vietnam-war-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book '' Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam''. His most recent book, '' JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956'' (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year. Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''Los Angeles Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |