Nothing is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam.

• Date: 01 April 2022
• Author: Viet, Nguyen Tuan

Nothing is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam. By Ted Osius. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2022. Hardcover: 332pp.

Nothing is Impossible tells one of the most remarkable diplomatic stories of the past three decades: how the United States and Vietnam, two former implacable enemies, overcame the tragedy of war to build an enduring new relationship aimed at forging a better future for their people.

The book, written as a personal memoir of Ted Osius, who served as American ambassador to Vietnam from December 2014 to November 2017, makes an important contribution to the understanding of the history of US-Vietnam relations. It offers an outstanding account of a rare transformational journey in history when the two peoples, formerly divided by bitter ideological differences and engaged in one of the most devastating wars of the twentieth century, found their way towards a spirit of reconciliation. The book provides valuable insights into how this reconciliation came about and the role that different actors in both countries played from the early 1990s onwards. The book also brings analysts and historians rich materials to study the...