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.
- ISBN10 132259578X
- ISBN13 9781322595788
- Publish Date 1 January 2015 (first published 31 December 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of Kentucky
- Format eBook
- Pages 193
- Language English