Vietnam at War

Name: Vietnam at War
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ISBN: 9780199657988

ISBN-10: 019965798X

ISBN-13: 9780199657988

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark Philip Bradley

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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 several 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…

Book details

List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/20/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.70" wide x 5.10" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Mark Philip Bradley is associate professor of U.S. international history at the University of Chicago.



List of Illustrations


List of Plates


List of Abbreviations


Map of Vietnam at War, 1954-1975


Prelude



Visions of the Future



The French War



The Coming of the American War



Experiencing War



War's End


Coda


Further Reading


Notes


Picture and Text Acknowledgements


Index