The Endless War : : Vietnam'S Struggle for Independence / / James P. Harrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Harrison, James P.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Discusses the Vietnamese side of the events that have shaken Vietnam and neighboring lands from the 1950s to the 1980s in order to give some historical understanding of how the communists took command of the Vietnamese Revolution and went on to defeat enemies many times more powerful than themselves.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps -- Preface to the Morningside Edition -- Note on Vietnamese Names -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction The United States and the Vietnam War -- Part One History Read Backward The Final, First, and Second Victories of the Vietnamese Communists -- Chapter One The Fall of Saigon -- Chapter Two The "First Revolutionary Upsurge" -- Chapter Three The Lean Years -- Chapter Four The First Communist Victory -- Chapter Five The French War -- Part Two Communist Strengths and Establishment Weaknesses -- Chapter Six Nationalism and Ideology -- Chapter Seven Organization and Practice -- Part Three The Second Indochina War -- Chapter Eight The Diem Years -- Chapter Nine The American War Escalates -- Chapter Ten The End of the Thirty Years' War -- Chapter Eleven The Wheels of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Addenda To Index