Vietnam''s American War - A New History

"This book masterfully relates the background to the US military intervention to save noncommunist South Vietnam and, fundamentally, how North Vietnam's leaders made that intervention futile. Richly detailed, it is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, invaluable for scholars, and sure to delight general readers"--

List of contents

Introduction: Why Vietnam Matters; 1. From Dai Viet to the August Revolution; 2. Civil and Colonial War, 1945-1954; 3. Interwar Period, 1954-1965; 4. Americanization, 1965-1968; 5. De-Americanization, 1968-1973; 6. Endings, 1973-1975; Epilogue: Legacies.

About the author

Pierre Asselin holds the Dwight E. Stanford Chair in US Foreign Relations History at San Diego State University. He is the author of A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (2002) and Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965 (2013), and editor of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, Volume III: Endings.

Summary

This book masterfully relates the background to the US military intervention to save noncommunist South Vietnam and, fundamentally, how North Vietnam's leaders made that intervention futile. Richly detailed, it is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, invaluable for scholars, and sure to delight general readers.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Asselin, Pierre (San Diego State University) Asselin, Asselin Pierre
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009229326
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922932-6
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vietnam, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, military history, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 1960 to c 1970, Asian History, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period), Vietnam War, For undergraduate education and equivalents, Textbook, coursework