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Chandler, David P. The Tragedy of Cambodian History : Politics, War and Revolution since 1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
Dommen, Arthur J. Laos : Keystone of Indochina. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1985.
Fall, Bernard. Anatomy of a Crisis: The Story of the Laotian Crisis of 1960-1961. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1969.
     A good account of the aftermath of the Viet Minh invasion of Laos during the First Indochina War, and a stinging indictment of the policies of Eisenhower/Dulles leading to the Laotian Crisis.
Parker, James E., Jr. Codename Mule, Fighting the Secret War in Laos for the CIA. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Shawcross, William. Sideshow : Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
; Warner, Roger. Back Fire : The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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