| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis. The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. x, 435. $34.95.

Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis has written a new version of the now familiar, but endlessly intriguing, story of the 1945 friendship between the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh. She has added a good deal of new documentary detail from the National Archives and reminiscences of OSS and Deer Team members, as well as from some of the Vietnamese who were trained by them in the summer before the Japanese surrender. Her account of what turned out to be a wartime fling dissects the U.S. motivation for this collaboration with clarity and nuance. She enlivens the story by exploring the clashes of opinion and political rivalries that often made the allies slow to act in the China theater. Yet the author is not able to shed any new light on the Vietnamese personalities and forces on the Asian end of this partnership. Although this is not her main goal, this reservation must impinge on our evaluation of the results of the OSS aid to the Viet Minh.

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