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The Third Force in the Vietnam War - The Elusive Search for Peace 1954-75 (Hardcover)
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The Third Force in the Vietnam War - The Elusive Search for Peace 1954-75 (Hardcover)
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It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the
struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.
Rejecting the idea that war between Hanoi and the US was
inevitable, the author traces North Vietnam's programs for a
peaceful reunification of their nation from the 1954 Geneva
negotiations up to the final collapse of the Saigon government in
1975. She also examines the ways that groups and personalities in
South Vietnam responded by crafting their own peace proposals, in
the hope that the Vietnamese people could solve their disagreements
by engaging in talks without outside interference. While most of
the writing on peacemaking during the Vietnam War concerns
high-level international diplomacy, Sophie Quinn-Judge reminds us
of the courageous efforts of southern Vietnamese, including
Buddhists, Catholics, students and citizens, to escape the
unprecedented destruction that the US war brought to their people.
The author contends that US policymakers showed little regard for
the attitudes of the South Vietnamese population when they took
over the war effort in 1964 and sent in their own troops to fight
it in 1965.A unique contribution of this study is the interweaving
of developments in South Vietnamese politics with changes in the
balance of power in Hanoi; both of the Vietnamese combatants are
shown to evolve towards greater rigidity as the war progresses,
while the US grows increasingly committed to President Thieu in
Saigon, after the election of Richard Nixon. Not even the signing
of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement could blunt US support for Thieu
and his obstruction of the peace process. The result was a
difficult peace in 1975, achieved by military might rather than
reconciliation, and a new realization of the limits of American
foreign policy.
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