Peace, POWs, and Power

Reflections on the Vietnam War

Acclaimed Vietnam War historian George J. Veith, the author of Code-Name Bright Light, Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, and Drawn Swords in a Distant Land, provides profound new understandings of three critical aspects of the Vietnam War: the struggle to achieve peace, the difficulties in attaining the fullest possible accounting for American POW/MIAs, and the untold courage of our South Vietnamese allies. Peace, POWs, and Power: Reflections on the Vietnam War collects scholarship created over the last twenty-five years to reveal how Hanoi's and Saigon's secret policies caused the peace between North and South Vietnam to fail, highlights how Hanoi manipulated the POW/MIA issue, and illuminates how our South Vietnamese allies were unfairly maligned. Using previously untapped primary sources, Veith offers compelling insights into how Hanoi manipulated the peace to achieve victory, how it continues to withhold valuable information on the fate of missing American servicemen, and how the South Vietnamese fought to build a non-communist country.