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Hanoi´s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Pierre Asselin
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Description for Hanoi´s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Paperback. Basing on inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, this book examines the internal debates and other elements that shaped Hanoi's revolutionary strategy in the decade preceding US military intervention, and resulting domestic and foreign programs. Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 484.
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. Basing his work on new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, Pierre Asselin explores the communist ... Read more
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. Basing his work on new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, Pierre Asselin explores the communist ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287495
SKU
V9780520287495
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About Pierre Asselin
Pierre Asselin is Professor of History at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu and the author of A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement.
Reviews for Hanoi´s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Highly recommended. CHOICE Excellent new [work] on the Vietnam War.
Geoffrey C. Stewart Cross-Currents Outstanding... Illuminating. Proceedings A valuable contribution to any discussion of North Vietnam's road to war, and the origins of the American stage in the Vietnam War.
Tal Tovy H-Net Asselin's excellent study ... will remain an ... Read more
Geoffrey C. Stewart Cross-Currents Outstanding... Illuminating. Proceedings A valuable contribution to any discussion of North Vietnam's road to war, and the origins of the American stage in the Vietnam War.
Tal Tovy H-Net Asselin's excellent study ... will remain an ... Read more