Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and index.

The last man to die in Vietnam -- The Vietnamese: the long road to revolution -- Ho Chi Minh: the making of a revolutionary -- Ho Chi Minh meets the OSS -- The French war in Vietnam: the elephant and the tiger -- Tumbling dominoes -- Ngo Dinh Diem: America's miracle man in Saigon -- The last days of President Diem -- From the Tonkin Gulf to Rolling Thunder -- The American war in Vietnam -- The antiwar movement -- The Tet Offensive -- The beginning of the end -- The fall of Saigon -- Reconciliation.