The Spy Who Loved Us_ The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game ( PDFDrive )

“Thomas Bass tells a fantastic tale of intrigue, espionage, and
friendship. His book reads as if it came from the farthest shores
of fiction, and I wouldn’t believe a word of it if I hadn’t met so
many of its characters and didn’t know the story to be true.”
—H. D. S. GREENWAY, editor, The Boston Globe, and Vietnam war reporter
for Time Magazine and the Washington Post
“Every veteran, every scholar, every student, everyone who
survived the Vietnam war is advised to read this book and reflect
on its wisdom. In his thoughtful, provocative biography of
one of the most successful espionage agents in history, Thomas
Bass challenges some of our most fundamental assumptions
about what really happened in Vietnam and what it means to us
today.”
—JOHN LAURENCE, Vietnam war reporter for CBS News and author of
The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story
“This is a chilling account of betrayal of an American army—and
an American press corps—involved in a guerrilla war in a society
about which little was known or understood. The spy here was
in South Vietnam, and his ultimate motives, as Thomas Bass
makes clear, were far more complex than those of traditional espionage.
This book, coming now, has another message, too, for
me—have we put ourselves in the same position, once again,
in Iraq?”
—SEYMOUR HERSH, author of
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
“Thomas Bass has rendered a sensitive, revealing portrait of the
strangely ambivalent personality I knew during the Vietnam war.
In doing so he provides us with unique insights into the nature,
conflicting sentiments, and heartbreak of many Vietnamese
who worked with Americans, made friends with them, but in
the end loved their land more and sought, as their ancestors had
for a thousand years, to free it from all trespassers.
—SEYMOUR TOPPING, former Southeast Asia bureau chief and
managing editor of The New York Times