Fifty documents, including Vietnam's declaration of independence in 1945, the final declaration of the 1954 Geneva Conference, CIA reports, US presidential addresses, anti-war leaflets, thoughts by Vietnamese and American intellectuals, and statements by the Vietnamese government and NLF. Paper edit

George Katsiaficas

Chapter I The First Indochina War-France; Chapter II The Geneva Conference of 1954 and Its Aftermath; Chapter III The Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Chapter IV The American Buildup; Chapter V The 1968 Tet Offensive; Chapter VI The Antiwar Movement; Chapter VII Vietnamization, the Paris Peace Treaty, and the Fall of Saigon; Chapter VIII Rationales and Retrospectives;