| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Britain, America, and the Vietnam War. By Sylvia Ellis. (Westport: Praeger, 2004. xxii, 298 pp. $74.95, ISBN 0-275-97381-6.)

History, so the saying goes, never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes. Sylvia Ellis's book concerns the Anglo-American relationship over the war in Vietnam during the years of major escalation, and the reader cannot help but sense the contemporary resonance of her account. In Vietnam in the 1960s as in Iraq after mid-2002, U.S. presidents worked hard to win international backing for U.S. military intervention; on both occasions the results were meager, as allies real and potential questioned the wisdom and necessity of war and puzzled over Washington's seeming impatience with efforts at diplomacy. On both occasions, too, American leaders attached particular importance to the thinking in London.

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