"Dommen s book promises to be the definitive political history
of Indochina during the Franco-American era." William M.
Leary,
E. Merton Coulter Professor of History, University of Georgia
This magisterial study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina
wars 'French and American' in perspective as no book that has come
before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the
Vietnamese War of Independence from China in 930-39 through the
first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the
peoples of Indochina with Western powers began.
Dommen details the crucial episodes in the colonization of
Indochina by the French and the indigenous reaction to it. The
struggle for national sovereignty reached an acute state at the end
of World War II, when independent governments rapidly assumed power
in Vietnam and Cambodia. When the French returned, the struggle
became one of open warfare, with Nationalists and Communists
gripped in a contest for ascendancy in Vietnam, while the rulers of
Cambodia and Laos sought to obtain independence by negotiation.
The withdrawal of the French after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu
brought the Indochinese face-to-face, whether as friends or as
enemies, with the Americans. In spite of an armistice in 1954, the
war between Hanoi and Saigon resumed as each enlisted the help of
foreign allies, which led to the renewed loss of sovereignty as a
result of alliances and an increasingly heavy loss of lives.
Meticulous and detailed, Dommen s telling of this complicated story
is always judicious. Nevertheless, many people will find his
analysis of the Diem coup a disturbing account of American plotting
and murder.
This is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand
Vietnam and the people who fought against the United States and
won.
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