A Tract of Time

A Tract of Time

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name = A Tract of Time
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image_caption = Cover of 1966 Houghton Mifflin
first edition. Dust jacket illustration by William Hofmann.
author = Smith Hempstone
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Vietnam War novel
publisher = Houghton Mifflin
release_date = 1966
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
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isbn = NA
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"A Tract of Time" is an antiwar novel from 1966 by Smith Hempstone, that covers the time period about 1960, when there was an attempted coup of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem [cite web |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/cats/vietnam_f.htm|title=Recollection Used Books|author=Recollection Used Books| accessdate=2008-02-29] . Even as the United States backed Diem's government during the war, it's American advisers worked with the Montagnar people who opposed Diem, to help them fight the Vietcong, whom they also opposed [cite web |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/cats/vietnam_f.htm|title=Recollection Used Books|author=Recollection Used Books| accessdate=2008-02-29] . The book follows one CIA operative, Harry Coltart, as he works with the Montagnard mountain tribesmen in the Central Highlands [cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ehCWYZ13SPsC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=%22a+tract+of+time%22+hmung&source=web&ots=whadp_OBfB&sig=wOv9vxXJFkREdQbi2mc9avm4A1s&hl=en#PPA266,M1|title=A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism|author=Clive J. Christie|accessdate=2008-02-29] . Harry is initially successful in getting the Montagnards to fight against the Veit Cong, but then the Montagnards are betrayed and South Vietnamese troops are sent in. Harry has to be rescued as the Montagnards join the Vietcong [cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ekFAAAAAIAAJ&dg=inauthor:Smith+inauthor:Himpstone&pgis=1|title=Only novelists can write about politics ... |author=Kirkus Reviews| accessdate=2008-02-29] .

The book has been considered to be an important novel from the time [cite web |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/cats/vietnam_f.htm|title=Recollection Used Books|author=Recollection Used Books| accessdate=2008-02-29] , and has been cited in at least one history book, "A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism", by Clive J. Christie [cite web |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ehCWYZ13SPsC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=%22a+tract+of+time%22+hmung&source=web&ots=whadp_OBfB&sig=wOv9vxXJFkREdQbi2mc9avm4A1s&hl=en#PPA266,M1|title=A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism|author=Clive J. Christie|accessdate=2008-02-29] . It was listed in "Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine" in a list of the top 51 Vietnam War novels [cite web |url=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/cats/vietnam_f.htm|title=Recollection Used Books|author=Recollection Used Books| accessdate=2008-02-29] .

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=ekFAAAAAIAAJ&dg=inauthor:Smith+inauthor:Himpstone&pgis=1 A Google Book Search page that has a good review, "Only novelists can write about politics ..." by Kirkus Reviews.]


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