Vietnam War A Concise International History

Name: Vietnam War A Concise International History
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ISBN: 9780195314656

ISBN-10: 0195314654

ISBN-13: 9780195314656

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Atwood Lawrence

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The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, especially in light of the invasion of Iraq. In The Vietnam War, Mark Lawrence offers readers a superb short account of this key moment in U.S. as well as world history, based on the latest European and American research and on newly opened archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam. While focusing on the American involvement from 1965 to 1975, Lawrence offers an unprecedentedly complete picture of all sides of the war, drawing on now available communist records to capture the complicated brew of motivations that drove the other side. Moreover, the book reaches back well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, describing for…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin.



Introduction



The Road to Revolution



Colonialism and Cold War



An Anguished Peace



Escalation



War on Many Fronts



The Tet Offensive



Ending the American War



Wars Unending


Notes


Further Reading


Index