I read Dooley’s book many years ago and recall a part titled The Night They Burned the Mountain or some such. Dooley fell and broke a collar bone I think, and was found to have cancer.
He also describes communist penetration of the country. From the ground-level, and is not flattering to diplomatic reports of the situation. The Kennedy administration did not recognize what the Viet Minh was doing, which was to prepare a staging area for invasion further south. They brought the Russians in to “negotiate” with their ally.Ho.