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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ,
by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan,
John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
47 From the American Withdrawal to the Fall of the South (1972 - 1975). (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Butler, David. The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden
End to a Long War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Dawson, Alan. 55 Days : The Fall of South Vietnam.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977.
Isaacs, Arnold. Without Honor : Defeat in Vietnam and
Cambodia. altimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval. New York: Random House,
1977.
Snepp was a senior CIA analyst in Saigon during
the period from the American combat withdrawal to the fall of Saigon
(1972-75). He relates the story of the CIA's and State Department's
failure to understand that Saigon was going to fall, and a
stunning indictment of the American abandonment those Vietnamese who had
helped the CIA in the midst of the final US evacuation.
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