BOOK REVIEW: Number One Realist (Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare)

By Nathaniel L Moir. Oxford University Press, London. Hard cover, 516 pp with notes, bibliography and index. US$41.

One morning in February 1967, I boarded a US Air Force C-130 for the flight from what was then Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airfield to Da Nang Air Base 600 km to the north. I was then a correspondent for Newsweek Magazine and at my side on the flight was Bernard B. Fall, the author and scholar, who was staying with Newsweek’s Francois Sully while he used the …