This book focuses on how the Vietnam Communist party adapted to its environment in order to achieve and exercise power and to what degree these adaptations made the Vietnamese revolution distinctive.

Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective

Turley, William S.

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Routledge

Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective (Westview Special Studies on South and Southeast Asia)

Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi In Comparative Perspective

Selden, Mark

In the United States, discussion of the Vietnam War has tended to focus on the U.S. role, U.S. strategy, U.S. diplomacy, and the war's effects on American society. The tendency to hold U.S. domestic politics responsible for the war's outcome implies that events in Indochina were nothing more than a backdrop for an essentially American drama. In contrast, The Second Indochina War emphasizes the Vietnamese dimensions of a conflict in which all of Indochina--Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia--was treated as a single strategic unit. The author contends that only from this perspective is it clear how the war began, why its scale outstripped U.S. expectations, and why the Communists prevailed. Professor Turley gives a balanced account of events in, and views from, Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi. Drawing on years of research in primary documents and interviews conducted by the author in Saigon and Hanoi, the book focuses on the experience, strategies, leadership, and internal politics of the revolutionary side. To set the scene, the author considers the legacies of colonial rule in Indochina and the origins of the U.S. commitment there. He recounts the development of the Saigon regime and explains the bases of revolution in the South, the key communist decisions, and the North's response to bombing. The major military campaigns are clearly described and analyzed, as are the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement and its aftermath. Vietnam is the central focus, but the reader's attention is also drawn to the strategies and events that unified the conflict in all three countries of Indochina into a single war. Concise yet comprehensive, The Second Indochina War is suitable for the general reader, as a text for courses on the war, or as supplementary reading for courses on Southeast Asian politics, U.S. foreign policy, revolutionary conflict, and Asian regional security. An annotated bibliography and chronology enhance its usefulness. Original material on communist internal debates and military campaigns, based on primary documents in Vietnamese, will also make this book a valuable resource for scholars of Southeast Asia.

The Second Indochina War: A Short Political And Military History, 1954-1975

History

Americas

A history of the Vietnam War studies the military, political and social aspects of both sides and the impact of the conflict on all of Indochina

Second Indochina War

Teen & Young Adult

BERKLEY

Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this influential book offers a concise history of the 'Vietnam War' as seen by all sides, not just from the American perspective. Retaining its invaluable account of the strategies, perspectives, and internal politics of the Vietnamese Communists based on research in primary documents and interviews in Saigon and Hanoi, this completely updated and expanded edition incorporates the avalanche of documentation and secondary literature in both English and Vietnamese that has appeared over the past two decades. Distinguished scholar William Turley traces the conflict from its origins in the colonial period to its aftermath and shows how the local, national, regional, and global layers of conflict blended into a single event of great complexity. He takes a refreshingly objective look at contentious issues and concludes with a penetrating assessment of the claims, justifications, and 'lessons' that scholars, statesmen, and strategists have advanced since the war's end. More information is available on the author's website.

The Second Indochina War: A Concise Political and Military History

Asia

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this influential book offers a concise history of the "Vietnam War" as seen by all sides, not just from the American perspective. Retaining its invaluable account of the strategies, perspectives, and internal politics of the Vietnamese Communists based on research in primary documents and interviews in Saigon and Hanoi, this completely updated and expanded edition incorporates the avalanche of documentation and secondary literature in both English and Vietnamese that has appeared over the past two decades. Distinguished scholar William Turley traces the conflict from its origins in the colonial period to its aftermath and shows how the local, national, regional, and global layers of conflict blended into a single event of great complexity. He takes a refreshingly objective look at contentious issues and concludes with a penetrating assessment of the claims, justifications, and "lessons" that scholars, statesmen, and strategists have advanced since the war's end. More information is available on the author's website.

Turley, William S., Second Indochina War, The: A Short Political and Military History: 1954-1975

The Second Indochina War: A Short Political and Military History, 1954-1975

Westview Press

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Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective

Vietnamese Communism In Comparative Perspective (Westview Special Studies on South and Southeast Asia)

Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi In Comparative Perspective

The Second Indochina War: A Short Political And Military History, 1954-1975

Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi In Comparative Perspective

Second Indochina War

The Second Indochina War: A Concise Political and Military History

The Second Indochina War: A Concise Political and Military History

The Second Indochina War: A Concise Political and Military History

The Second Indochina War: A Short Political and Military History, 1954-1975