Peter Dewey was shot in a jungle and a royalist general was abandoned for a communist. These tragedies were buried in a record that blends raw field reports with polished draft histories.
By Harlan Pryce ·
For decades, the record of a tactical alliance in French Indo-China remained buried, mirroring a sudden, unexplained gap in the war diaries of the Far East.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Top-secret communications to Mao Zedong show how Soviet officials felt Pham Van Dong had "no mature ideas" for pushing French forces back to the 13th parallel in 1954.
By Vera Kessler ·
Korean voters were denied a democratic poll after Soviet leadership pushed the UN out of the 1954 Geneva Conference to protect Kim Il Sung's grip on power.
By Roy Castellano ·