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The ambassador / Morris West.

By: West, Morris, 1916-1999 [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017Copyright date: ©1965Description: 254 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760297619; 1760297615Subject(s): Ambassadors -- Vietnam -- Fiction | Ambassadors -- United States -- Fiction | Diplomats -- United States -- Fiction | Americans -- Vietnam -- Fiction | Vietnam -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Action and adventure fiction. | Australian fiction. Summary: American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation's fate on the one hand, and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of every international crisis comes at least one great book. From the explosive, bitter and savage battlefront of Vietnam, Morris West's masterly novel The Ambassador brings to life the early days of the Vietnam War and its backroom political dealings, foreshadowing the repercussions that continue today.

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Originally published: Great Britain : William Heinemann Ltd, 1965.

American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation's fate on the one hand, and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of every international crisis comes at least one great book. From the explosive, bitter and savage battlefront of Vietnam, Morris West's masterly novel The Ambassador brings to life the early days of the Vietnam War and its backroom political dealings, foreshadowing the repercussions that continue today.

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