This stunning, authoritative account of one of the century's most harrowing human catastrophes - the fall of South Vietnam - was written by a journalist who spent the last years of the war in Indochina. Based on firsthand observations, recently declassified data, interviews and field reports, it brings to light previously unreported aspects of the Vietnam story. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Vietnam, Cambodia, United States History, Foreign Policy, Military, Vietnam War, Le Duc Tho, Nguyen Van Thieu, Pathet Lao, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Khmer Rouge, Ho Chi MinVan, Thien Dung, Central Intelligence Agency, Ban Me Thuot, Arnold R. Isaacs, Indochina).