Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

467 Seiten, 16 Tafeln, OLn., OU., 23,5 x 15,5 cm.

Bemerkung:

"'Sideshow' is the story of America's secret war against Cambodia. It is the first full-scale investigation of how power was employed - and abused - in the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and the State Department under the leadschip of Richard Nixon and his National Security Assistant, Henry Kissinger. It is a tragic history of the destruction of a neutral country which was always regarded by the White House and the State Department as 'something of a sideshow to Vietnam'. In this astonishing account of the waging of a secret and illicit war, William Shawcross draws upon his own experience in Southeast Asia, upon interviews with hundreds of participants, and upon thousands of pages of classified U.S. Government documents. [...] It is a devastating portrait of Henry Kissinger - collaborator in the secret bombing of Cambodia begun in 1969 and later participant in a full-scale program of wiretapping designed to plug alleged leaks on the bombing - a man who built bridges and barricades all across Washington, extending his influence by cultivating the press, chosen leaders of Congress, and the Joint Chiefs" (Klappentext). - Provenienz: Bibliothek des Journalisten und ZEIT-Herausgebers Theo Sommer (1930-2022; Nachlassexlibris auf dem vorderen Spiegel). - Der Schutzumschlag lichtrandig und etwas angerändert; der Vortitel am unteren Seitenrand mit kleiner Fehlstelle (mutmaßlich produktionsbedingt). Sonst und insgesamt gutes Exemplar.