The New Face of War

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's pale green embossed cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in dark brown and red to spine and front board, with an embossed flame design in blind to front board. Clean and strong with some light bumping to the spine ends, in bright pictorial dustjacket with some fraying and scuffing to the spine ends, a very good. clean copy indeed. 284pp. Internally clean. With 17pp. of photographs to the middle of the book, taken by the author, including a sequence of images of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc self immolating in Saigon on June 11th 1963, the capturing of which event gained Browne lasting recognition, and won him a Pulitzer. Another rather more significant effect of Browne's photograph is that by the morning of June 12th, John F. Kennedy had the photograph on his desk, pointed at it and bluntly told US Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge, who contributed the preface to this book, "This sort of thing has got to stop." Whilst that might sound like a relatively mild response to the suicide by fire of a respected holy man, it effectively signalled the end of US support for the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, and changed the course of the next ten years of conflict and upheaval.