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Title: The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964 by Francis X. Winters ISBN: 0-8203-2121-4 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A monumental work from an American scholar
Comment: Francis X. Winters has written what the Vietnamese both in Viet Nam and the overseas have been saying for decades. The only differences between the Vietnamese version versus Winters' is that he had unearth rare documents and conducted fascinating interviews to support his claim. There are many books about Viet Nam; however, "The Year of the Hare" stands alone from 1963-1964.

Rating: 2
Summary: This book heads to the wrong direction.
Comment: In a "letter to the Editor" published in National Review Magazine of 3/24/89, I've already pointed out the blattant errors made by Mr. Winters in his article "They Shoot Allies, Don't They?" published by the same magazine in its 11/25/88. Factual errors that he had to recognize like: Ho Chi Minh was born in Hue, Thich Tri Quang was a successful lawer, The HCM Trail was started in 1962, ... This book is a development of that article and consequently the errors are even bigger. Let's look at the book's most important question: Why did President Kennedy wanted to replace President Diem, an ally of 9 years? To answer this question correctly and completly, we have to look beyond Kennedy's political ambition, beyond the election of 1964. To fully answer to this question, Mr. Winters must also think of other questions: Why did the U.S. support then stop the support to the Shah of Iran, Somoza, Noriega, Marcos, ...? Beside other factors, the most important one is "THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE" of Iran, of Nicaragua, of the Phillippines, of Vietnam. This factor is totally absent from Mr. Winters' book. The only shadow of the author's interest in the "people" is in the title of his book. And I agree with the previous comentator that even "the year of the hare" is, unknown to Mr. Winters, unapplicable to the Vietnamese. * A Vietnamese in Sacramento, California.

Rating: 4
Summary: Not particularly insighful
Comment: This book did not set off any light bulb in my mind. Those readers who have read other accounts of the 1963 coup in Vietnam (e.g., by Bernard Fall, or the Pentagon Papers) will not gain any new insight from this one. About the cleverest part of the book is its title. Unfortunately, even that effort failed: The author did not realize that, for a year that the Chinese consider the year of the hare, the Vietnamese call it the year of the cat.

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