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The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966

The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966

Topmiller, Robert J.

Paperback

BuddhismSoutheast Asian HistoryVietnam War

ISBN10: 0813191661
ISBN13: 9780813191669
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices--including self-immolation--to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays bare the dissension within the U.S. military. The Lotus Unleashed is one of the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.

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