''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 American Library in Paris Book Award was created in 2013 with a donation from the Florence Gould Foundation. It is awarded each November with a remunerative prize of $5,000 to "a work written originally in English that deepens and stimulates our und ...
, 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
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in Vietnam, focusing on the
Indochina War between France and the
Viet Minh.
Reviews
* Alan Brinkley
The New York Times
* Scott Midgley
Reviews in History
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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
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