| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. By Kathryn C. Statler. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv, 378 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2440-7.)

It is surprising that in the mountainous scholarship on the origins and course of the wars on the Indochina peninsula there have been few attempts to place the crucial Franco-American relationship at the center of analysis and certainly none that can compare with Kathryn C. Statler's welcome new study for the range of archival materials researched in France, the United States, and Britain. Statler shows how even though France and the United States shared the common goal after 1950 of defeating the Viet Minh–led insurgency and preserving Western influence in what remained of non-Communist Vietnam after the Geneva agreements of 1954, they went about those tasks in radically different ways, with only rare moments of coordinated effort.

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