Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet and American sources, Ang provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975) from the Vietnamese communists’ perspective.
Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet and American sources, Ang provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975) from the Vietnamese communists’ perspective.
In the last few decades, discourse on the Second Indochina War has shifted towards the South and its allies. To mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Ang revisits the experiences of the North. Focusing on scholarship published within the last thirty years, the book reexamines the 1954 Geneva Conference, the end of the First Vietnam War through the Second Vietnam War to the 1975 Fall of Saigon, bringing readers up to date on the current state of the field.
A valuable resource for scholars and students of history, war studies, peace and conflict studies, as well as those interested in the historical and contemporary implications of the Vietnam War.
Acknowledgements
State of the Field
PART I Prelude to a War
1 Decolonisation Meets the Cold War, 1948
2 From Geneva 1954 to the Resumption of Armed Struggle, 1959
3 Towards the Establishment of the National Liberation Front for South
Vietnam, 1960
4 Laos Takes Centre Stage, 19601962
PART II Making of a Limited War
5 The Armed Struggle Intensifies, 19621966
6 Secret Peace Initiatives Marigold, Sunflower, Pennsylvania,
19661967
7 The Siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive, 1968
PART III Ending the Vietnam War
8 The Start of Negotiations, 1968
9 Fighting and Negotiating, 19691970
10 Secret Negotiations in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho,
19711973
11 From the Paris Peace Agreements, January 1973 to the End of the War, April
1975
Selected Bibliography
Index
Ang Cheng Guan is Professor of International History of Southeast Asia and Associate Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches the international history of contemporary Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia.
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