A study of warfare in Vietnamese history encompassing socio-political, economic, and diplomatic issues. Focusing on the Vietnam War, it demonstrates how for many Vietnamese, the war was one of a long series of struggles against foreign domination.
Autorentext
Spencer C. Tucker, Virginia Military Institute
Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive overview of warfare in Vietnamese history from the early efforts to free themselves from Chinese control, through the Indo-China and Vietnam Wars, the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, up to the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. Concentrating on the Vietnam War, the author explores the conflict from the Vietnamese perspective, demonstrating how for many Vietnamese the war was merely one of a long series of struggles against foreign domination. Encompassing socio-political, economic, diplomatic and cultural issues, this text provides an introduction to Vietnam's military history and will be of interest to students of 20th century American and Asian history.
Inhalt
1 The background 2 French Indo-China 3 The Indo-China War (1946-54) 4 The Vietnam War: the United States takes over (1954-65) 5 The Vietnam War: the quagmire (1965-8) 6 The Vietnam War: the US search for a way out (1968-73) 7 The Third Vietnam War (1973-5) 8 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the war with China
Titel
Vietnam
Autor
EAN
9781135357788
ISBN
978-1-135-35778-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
01.11.2002
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.06 MB
Anzahl Seiten
244
Jahr
2002
Untertitel
Englisch
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