| |
| |
| Foreword | |
| |
| |
| |
| America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Evolution of a Strategy | |
| |
| |
| What the Nixon Administration Found | |
| |
| |
| Groping for a Strategy: The North Vietnamese Offensive and the Bombing of Cambodia | |
| |
| |
| Attempts at a Diplomatic Outcome | |
| |
| |
| Peace Initiatives | |
| |
| |
| The Beginning of Troop Withdrawals | |
| |
| |
| A Secret Meeting | |
| |
| |
| Another Reassessment | |
| |
| |
| The Unpacifiable Doves | |
| |
| |
| A Strategy Emerges | |
| |
| |
| |
| Secret Negotiations and a Widening War | |
| |
| |
| The Secret Negotiations | |
| |
| |
| Special Advisor Le Duc Tho and the First Round of Talks | |
| |
| |
| Laos Interlude | |
| |
| |
| The Overthrow of Sihanouk | |
| |
| |
| Another Major Troop Withdrawal | |
| |
| |
| The Attack on North Vietnamese Sanctuaries | |
| |
| |
| The Cambodian Incursion | |
| |
| |
| The Domestic Travail | |
| |
| |
| The Balance Sheet | |
| |
| |
| |
| Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail | |
| |
| |
| Madame Binh's Eight Points | |
| |
| |
| The Setting of a Strategy | |
| |
| |
| The Laos Operation | |
| |
| |
| Lam Son 719: The Military Operation | |
| |
| |
| Braving Domestic Opposition | |
| |
| |
| The Negotiations Are Resumed | |
| |
| |
| The South Vietnamese Presidential Election | |
| |
| |
| Revealing the Secret Talks | |
| |
| |
| |
| Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring Offensive | |
| |
| |
| Diplomatic Maneuvers | |
| |
| |
| What Strategy? | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Showdown | |
| |
| |
| The May 2 Secret Meeting | |
| |
| |
| The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam | |
| |
| |
| The Summit in the Balance | |
| |
| |
| |
| From Stalemate to Breakthrough | |
| |
| |
| Testing the Stalemate | |
| |
| |
| A Visit to Saigon | |
| |
| |
| Interlude: Meetings of September 15 and 27 | |
| |
| |
| The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Troubled Road to Peace | |
| |
| |
| Interlude in Paris | |
| |
| |
| Consultation with Thieu | |
| |
| |
| Rumblings | |
| |
| |
| Showdown with Thieu | |
| |
| |
| The Journey Home | |
| |
| |
| |
| "Peace Is at Hand" | |
| |
| |
| Election Interlude | |
| |
| |
| Haig Visits Saigon Again | |
| |
| |
| The Meetings with Le Duc Tho Resume | |
| |
| |
| The Breakdown of the Negotiations | |
| |
| |
| The Christmas Bombing | |
| |
| |
| Negotiations Resume | |
| |
| |
| The January Round of Negotiations | |
| |
| |
| Thieu Relents | |
| |
| |
| Peace at Last | |
| |
| |
| Postlude | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Visit to Hanoi | |
| |
| |
| |
| Enforcement and Aid | |
| |
| |
| The Thieu Visit | |
| |
| |
| Watergate and Enforcement | |
| |
| |
| The Search for Peace in Cambodia | |
| |
| |
| The Aborted Chinese Mediation | |
| |
| |
| The Negotiations Unravel | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ford and Vietnam | |
| |
| |
| The Strangulation of South Vietnam | |
| |
| |
| Hanoi Resumes the Offensive | |
| |
| |
| The End of the Road | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Collapse of Cambodia | |
| |
| |
| The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia | |
| |
| |
| The Final Collapse | |
| |
| |
| Final Note | |
| |
| |
| |
| The End of Vietnam | |
| |
| |
| The Debate over Evacuation | |
| |
| |
| The Search for a Political Solution | |
| |
| |
| The Evacuation | |
| |
| |
| The Last Day | |
| |
| |
| Epilogue | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| Appendix | |
| |
| |
| Notes | |
| |
| |
| Index | |