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What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Seeds in the Soil
2. Chapter Two - The Farmer and the Fire
3. Chapter Three - Liberation Promised, Liberation Denied
4. Chapter Four - Dien Bien Phu and the French Collapse
5. Chapter Five - The Great Betrayal
6. Chapter Six - The Long War
7. Chapter Seven - Victory and the Cost of Peace
8. Chapter Eight - Cambodia’s Dark Mirror
9. Chapter Nine - Ghost Protocol
10. Chapter Ten - The Red That Wasn’t Red
11. Chapter Eleven - The Myth of the Domino
12. Chapter Twelve - Spirit of the Soil

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Seeds in the Soil THIS STORY DOESN’T start with communism. It starts with colonization. In the mid-1800s, the French showed up in Vietnam with the usual imperial starter pack: missionaries, muskets, and a messiah complex. What began as religious infiltration quickly turned into outright invasion. By 1887, they’d slapped together French Indochina, a colonial Frankenstein’s monster made of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The French weren’t interested in governing fairly. They were there to extract rubber, rice, and whatever else they could ship back to Paris. Vietnamese farmers, the lifeblood of the land, were shoved off ancestral plots and turned into tenant laborers on their own...