The Vietnamese War

This is a history of the Vietnam war in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975, focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong". It drawns on documents captured by U.S. and South Vietnamese military forces.

Informationen zum Autor David Elliott Klappentext A monumental work of research and analysis, this is a history of the Vietnam War in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975. More precisely, it is a study of the Vietnamese dimension of the "Vietnam War, " focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong." There are several distinctive features to this study: (1) it provides an explanation for the paradox of why the revolutionary movement was so successful during the war, but unable to meet the challenges of postwar developments; (2) it challenges the dominant theme of contemporary political analysis which assumes that people are "rational" actors responding to events with careful calculations of self-interest; (3) it closely examines province-level documentation that casts light on a number of important historical controversies about the war. No other history of the Vietnam War has drawn on such a depth of documentation, especially firsthand accounts that allow the Vietnamese participants to spea directly to us. Zusammenfassung This is a history of the Vietnam war in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975, focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong". It drawns on documents captured by U.S. and South Vietnamese military forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, A Reader's Guide to The Vietnamese War, 1. The Vietnamese War: Introduction, 2. Postlude, 3. Prelude, 4. Revolution, 5. Resistance, 6. Six Years of Peace: 1954-59, 7. The Tiger Wakes, 8. Forged by the Hammer of the Party, 9. Creating an Armed Strike Force: Military Expansion, 1961-63, 10. Going for Broke, 11. Year of the Big Change: 1965, 12. Winning Hearts and Minds, 13. Stalemate, 14. Tet: the Untold Story of the "General Offensive and General Uprising", 15. Tragic Farewell, 16. Holding On, 17. Civil War, 18. The Final Chapter, Notes, Appendix A: The Human Cost, Appendix B: Reflections, Bibliography, Index...

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David Elliott

Klappentext

A monumental work of research and analysis, this is a history of the Vietnam War in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975. More precisely, it is a study of the Vietnamese dimension of the "Vietnam War, " focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong." There are several distinctive features to this study: (1) it provides an explanation for the paradox of why the revolutionary movement was so successful during the war, but unable to meet the challenges of postwar developments; (2) it challenges the dominant theme of contemporary political analysis which assumes that people are "rational" actors responding to events with careful calculations of self-interest; (3) it closely examines province-level documentation that casts light on a number of important historical controversies about the war. No other history of the Vietnam War has drawn on such a depth of documentation, especially firsthand accounts that allow the Vietnamese participants to spea directly to us.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments, A Reader's Guide to The Vietnamese War, 1. The Vietnamese War: Introduction, 2. Postlude, 3. Prelude, 4. Revolution, 5. Resistance, 6. Six Years of Peace: 1954-59, 7. The Tiger Wakes, 8. Forged by the Hammer of the Party, 9. Creating an Armed Strike Force: Military Expansion, 1961-63, 10. Going for Broke, 11. Year of the Big Change: 1965, 12. Winning Hearts and Minds, 13. Stalemate, 14. Tet: the Untold Story of the "General Offensive and General Uprising", 15. Tragic Farewell, 16. Holding On, 17. Civil War, 18. The Final Chapter, Notes, Appendix A: The Human Cost, Appendix B: Reflections, Bibliography, Index