A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over
French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in
Vietnam On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air
stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could
fight a mighty colonial power and win. After nearly a decade of
struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a
victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The
Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a
ragtag guerrilla army into a modern fighting force capable of
bringing down the formidable French army. Taking readers from the
outbreak of fighting in 1945 to the epic battle at Dien Bien Phu,
Christopher Goscha shows how Ho transformed Vietnam from a
decentralized guerrilla state based in the countryside to a
single-party communist state shaped by a specific form of “War
Communism.” Goscha discusses how the Vietnamese operated both
states through economics, trade, policing, information gathering,
and communications technology. He challenges the wisdom of
counterinsurgency methods developed by the French and still used by
the Americans today, and explains why the First Indochina War was
arguably the most brutal war of decolonization in the twentieth
century, killing a million Vietnamese, most of them civilians.
Panoramic in scope, The Road to Dien Bien Phu transforms our
understanding of this conflict and the one the United States would
later enter, and sheds new light on communist warfare and
statecraft in East Asia today.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Christopher Goscha
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 133mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
568 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-22864-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-22864-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780691228648 |
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