Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the twentieth century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame-from the January 27, 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender on April 30, 1975-has eluded us.



Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source mater...