Tag: Indochina

• Did Truman Start the Vietnam War?

  The headline is purposefully provocative. How could Truman, who came on the scene after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, have started the Vietnam War of two decades later? He didn’t, of course, but the case could be made, and was made in my thesis, that Truman instituted a policy shift towards Indochina which set the…

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  October 14, 2015

  History & Culture, USA, Vietnam

  Causes of Vietnam War, French Indochina, Indochina, Roosevelt policy towards Indo-china, Truman, Vietnam War, World War II

• 99 Cent Promotion & Excerpt 1: “The Reach of the Banyan Tree”

  My latest novel will be on 99 cents on Kindle from Feb 25 through March 2. Please pick up a copy at the link below. The following is an excerpt from the very beginning, setting up the premise and theme. I hope you enjoy. I’d love to hear your feedback. ************************************************************************************************* Part I: Lost Souls…

  sassevn

  February 25, 2015

  Indie Author, Promotion

  99 cent books, book excerpt, book sale, historical fiction, Indochina, kindle book sale, kindle countdown, kindle sale, Vietnam

• Know Your History: Indochina 1945 from a Page in my Novel

  I’m going to change up the “know your history” post this time around and use a direct quote from my new novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, to emphasize the strange WWII ties which existed in Indochina in 1945. Here’s a short paragraph from the chapter entitled “The Strange Ways of the Universe”: On a cosmic…

  sassevn

  July 16, 2014

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  Chinese communists, Chinese Nationalists, Free French, French Indochina, Indochina, Japanese expansion in southeast Asia, OSS, Vichy, Viet Minh

• Three Generations – One Awesome Vietnam Story

  As The Reach of the Banyan Tree gets closer to launch day, I want to highlight the one American family which always seems to be connected to Vietnam – the Carson family. Charles Carson was a member of the OSS (pre-cursor to the CIA) and parachuted into Tonkin, French Indochina in the summer of 1945, just…

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  June 13, 2014

  Indie Author

  adventure, French Indochina, Indochina, love story, new book releases July, novel characters, OSS, romance, Sasse novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, Tonkin, Vietnam