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The Vietnam War A Concise International History

ISBN: 9780199753932 | 0199753938
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/27/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews ), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war. His narrative begins well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, delving into French colonialism's contribution to the 1945 Vietnamese revolution, and revealing how the Cold War concerns of the 19... MORE
Introductionp. 1
The Road to Revolutionp. 7
Colonialism and Cold Warp. 27
An Anguished Peacep. 47
Escalationp. 67
War on Many Frontsp. 91
The Tet Offensivep. 115
Ending the American Warp. 137
Wars Unendingp. 161
Notesp. 187
Further Readingp. 201
Ind... MOREp. 205
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Mark Atwood Lawrence is a former correspondent for the Associated Press and Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His book Assuming the Burden (2007) won the George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association.

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