Edward Lansdale's Cold War

by Jonathan Nashel

Book Overview

The man widely believed to have been the model for Alden Pyle in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, Edward G. Lansdale (1908-1987) was a Cold War celebrity. A former advertising executive turned undercover CIA agent, he was credited during the 1950s with almost single-handedly preventing a communist takeover of the Philippines and with helping to install Ngo Dinh Diem as president of the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Adding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494642
• ISBN13: 9781558494640
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"