Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:
9780191539350
Content:
One of the first books to look at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced the wars for Vietnam, including both the French and the American wars. Combining political, social, and cultural history, Bradley examines how the war was seen both by top policy makers and also everyday soldiers and civilians in both North and South Vietnam. - ;The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead. But there were in fact many Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among the southern Vietnamese, a revolutionary war of ideas over what should guide Vietnamese society into its postcolonial future, and finally a war of memories after the official end of hostilities with the fall of Saigon in 1975. This book looks at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced all of these conflicts, showing how the wars for Vietnam were rooted in fundamentally conflicting visions of what an independent Vietnam should mean that in many ways remain unresolved to this day. Drawing upon twenty years of research, Mark Philip Bradley examines the thinking and the behaviour of the key wartime decision-makers in Hanoi and Saigon, while at the same time exploring how ordinary Vietnamese, northerners and southerners, men and women, soldiers and civilians, urban elites and rural peasants, radicals and conservatives, came to understand the thirty years of bloody warfare that unfolded around them - and how they made sense of its aftermath. -.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- MAP OF VIETNAM AT WAR, 1954-1975 -- Prelude -- 1. Visions of the Future -- 2. The French War -- 3. The Coming of the American War -- 4. Experiencing War -- 5. War's End -- Coda -- FURTHER READING -- NOTES -- PICTURE AND TEXT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192803498
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780192803498
Additional Edition:
Print version Vietnam at war
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=430690
