During the vietnam war bao ninh served with the glorious 27th youth brigade. Fifty documents, including vietnam s declaration of independence in 1945, the final declaration of the 1954 geneva conference, cia reports, us presidential addresses, anti war leaflets, thoughts by vietnamese and. When it first appeared, a rumor of war brought home to american readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the vietnam war on the soldiers who fought there. Europe and the american commitment to war in vietnam, which won the 2006 george louis beer prize and paul birdsall prize of the american historical association. Introduction mark atwood lawrence and fredrik logevall part i.
French imperial reconstruction and the development of the indochina war, 19451950 martin thomas part iii. Mar 01, 2004 mark atwood lawrence, assistant professor of history, university of texas, austin, is the author of constructing vietnam. Colonial conflict and cold war crisis, mark atwood lawrence and fredrik logevall, harvard university press, 27 february 2007. Southern resistance war by the vietnamese, was a postworld war ii armed conflict involving a largely britishindian and french task force and japanese troops from the southern expeditionary army group, versus the vietnamese communist movement, the viet minh, for control of. While focusing on american involvement between 1965 and 1975, lawrence offers an unprecedentedly complete picture of all sides of the war, notably by examining. A concise international history oup, 2008 and assuming the burden. Mark atwood lawrence deftly explores the process by which the western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the cold war fight into the third world. Lawrence starts his book in a time before america was involved in the war. New approaches to international environmental history. There is no other one volume history of the war that so thoroughly captures the war as an event in world history. How did the conflict between vietnamese nationalists and french colonial rulers erupt into a major cold war struggle between communism and wes. Article posted on air force magazine online august 2004, vol. Vietnam war ebok mark atwood lawrence bokus by mark atwood lawrence. The war in vietnam, codenamed operation masterdom by the british, and also known as nam b.
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