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27 black and white halftones
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196x129mm
978-0-19-280349-8
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Hardback
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26 March 2009
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- Addresses the question of who actually 'won' the war in Vietnam - and why
- There were many wars for Vietnam, involving the French in the 1950s, the Americans in the 1960s, and between the Vietnamese themselves - this book looks at all of them
- Looks at how the Vietnamese experienced these wars - from the key decision-makers in Hanoi and Saigon to ordinary people, both north and south, urban and peasant, civilian and military
The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead.
But there were in fact many Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among the southern Vietnamese, a revolutionary war of ideas over what should guide Vietnamese society into its postcolonial future, and finally a war of memories after the official end of hostilities
with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
This book looks at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced all of these conflicts, showing how the wars for Vietnam were rooted in fundamentally conflicting visions of what an independent Vietnam should mean that in many ways remain unresolved to this day.
Drawing upon twenty years of research, Mark Philip Bradley examines the thinking and the behaviour of the key wartime decision-makers in Hanoi and Saigon, while at the same time exploring how ordinary Vietnamese, northerners and southerners, men and women, soldiers and civilians, urban elites and rural peasants, radicals and conservatives, came to understand the thirty years of bloody warfare that unfolded around them - and how they made sense of its
aftermath.Readership: All those interested in the Vietnam war, south-east Asia, and the history of US foreign policy since 1945.
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Mark Philip Bradley, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago Contributors:
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Prelude
1: Visions of the Future
2: The French War
3: The Coming of the American War
4: Experiencing War
5: War's End
6: Coda
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