The Road to Dien Bien Phu : : A History of the First War for Vietnam /

The Road to Dien Bien Phu : : A History of the First War for Vietnam / / Christopher Goscha.

A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After near...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Goscha, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; 32 b/w illus. 15 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Word about Words
  • Maps
  • Introduction: States of War
  • 1 The Rise of the Archipelago State
  • 2 Building Military Force
  • 3 The Asian Routes of War
  • 4 The City at War
  • 5 Wiring War
  • 6 Policing War
  • 7 Trickle Economics
  • 8 The Levée en masse and War Communism
  • 9 Of Rice and War
  • 10 The Road to Dien Bien Phu
  • 11 Imperial Dust: Ho Chi Minh’s Associated States of Indochina
  • 12 Dien Bien Phu: The Changing of Heaven and Earth
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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