Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam, and the Origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949-1954

Drawing on a number of recently declassified documents, Lee (history, U. of British Columbia) explores the foreign policy objectives of the US, Great Britain, and Canada and examines the role that economic and military aid played in their attempts to establish pro-Western, anti-Communist governments on the periphery of Communist East Asia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.