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050 00 $aDS557.7$b.A86 2018
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100 1 $aAsselin, Pierre,$eauthor.
245 10 $aVietnam's American war :$ba history /$cPierre Asselin.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c℗♭2018
300 $axxxv, 283 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm.
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490 1 $aCambridge studies in US foreign relations
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Why Vietnam matters -- From Dai Viet to the August Revolution -- French war, 1945-1954 -- Interwar period, 1954-1965 -- American war, 1965-1968 -- American war, 1968-1973 -- Civil war, 1973-1975 -- Epilogue: Legacies.
520 $aCommunist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers, but they alone fail to explain why Hanoi bested Washington in the end. To make sense of the Vietnam War, we must look beyond the war itself. In his new work, Pierre Asselin explains the formative experiences and worldview of the men who devised communist strategies and tactics during the conflict, and analyzes their rationale and impact. Drawing on two decades of research in Vietnam's own archives, including classified policy statements and reports, Asselin expertly and straightforwardly relates the Vietnamese communist experience - and the reasons the war turned out the way it did.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975.
651 0 $aVietnam (Democratic Republic)$xHistory, Military.
830 0 $aCambridge studies in US foreign relations.
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