The Second Indochina War A Concise Political and Military History 2nd Edition by William Turley ISBN 978-0742555266 0742555267
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ISBN 10: 0742555267
ISBN 13: 978-0742555266
Author: William S. Turley
Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this influential book offers a concise history of the “Vietnam War” as seen by all sides, not just from the American perspective. Retaining its invaluable account of the strategies, perspectives, and internal politics of the Vietnamese Communists based on research in primary documents and interviews in Saigon and Hanoi, this completely updated and expanded edition incorporates the avalanche of documentation and secondary literature in both English and Vietnamese that has appeared over the past two decades. Distinguished scholar William Turley traces the conflict from its origins in the colonial period to its aftermath and shows how the local, national, regional, and global layers of conflict blended into a single event of great complexity. He takes a refreshingly objective look at contentious issues and concludes with a penetrating assessment of the claims, justifications, and “lessons” that scholars, statesmen, and strategists have advanced since the war’s end.
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Table of contents:
1. Legacies of Time
“Indochina” Roots of American Involvement
The Geneva Agreements
Notes
The War to Come
2. Between Two Wars
The Resurrection of Ngo Dinh Diem
The U.S. Commitment
The Southern Revolution in Communist Strategy
The Armed Struggle Option Founding the Front
Notes
3. Fateful Decisions
Kennedy’s War
The Communist Military Challenge
The “Special War”
The Coup
The Communist Response
Notes
4. Americanization
Going It (Almost) Alone
Hanoi’s Allies
Westmoreland’s Strategy
Hanoi’s Southern Command
Binh Gia
Rescue Mission
The Big Sweeps
Stalemate
Notes
5. Air War
Strategy in Search of a Rationale
Resurrecting the Resistance
The Limits of Bombing
Notes
6. Tet
Genesis of an Urban-Rural Strategy
Islands of Peace
Khe Sanh
The Attacks on the Cities
The Ambiguities of Defeat
The Patient Public
The Communist Victory
Notes
7. The Road to Paris
The Nixon-Kissinger Strategy
Widening the War
The Lull
Vietnamization
Unifying the Indochina Battlefield
Detour into Laos: Lam Son 719
Spring Offensive
Breaking the Deadlock
Notes
8. After the Americans
From Ceaseless Fire to Postwar War
The Military Balance
The Politics of Despair
Race against the Enemy and Heaven
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign
Notes
9. Of Lessons and Their Price
Could the U.S. Have Won?
Domino Theory Revisited
The “Lessons”
The Cost
Notes
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