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Episode Synopsis
EI's Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Jonathan Esty, of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, published 70 years ago, a gripping novel that captures the passing of the baton from the old colonial powers to the new masters in South-East Asia.
Image: French paratroops at the beginning of the First Indochina War. Credit: Keystone Press
Image: French paratroops at the beginning of the First Indochina War. Credit: Keystone Press
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