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end of the book, discussing a famous 1954 picture of a Foreign Legionary on patrol with US-made weaponry, de Orellana implies that US involvement meant the supply of materiel to France (pp. 199-201). Such supply, however, did not arrive until 1950; moreover, Washington had extended a major loan to France already in 1946, with which Paris financed the re-establishment of its colonial authority. This begs the question of when, if ever, the US did not back France in Vietnam, to which this book offers no answer. In conclusion, while The road to Vietnam is an innovative work of theory that also makes real contributions to an old and established line of enquiry in Vietnam scholarship, it will appeal far more to IR theorists than it will to historians.