Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2012 - History - 444 pages
While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention e
 

Contents

Introduction
1
THE PATH TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR
15
BREAKING THE STALEMATE
85
THE PURSUIT OF A CHIMERIC VICTORY
151
THE MAKING OF A FAULTY PEACE
229
Epilogue
300
Conclusion
305
Notes
313
Bibliography
391
Index
417
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Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

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