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Vietnam at War (Paperback)
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Vietnam at War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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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 several 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 decisionmakers in Hanoi and Saigon,
while at the same time exploring how ordinary Vietnamese people,
northerners and southerners, 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.
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