Where the Domino Fell

James S. Olson is Distinguished Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, and the recipient of the university's Excellence in Teaching Award and Excellence in Research Award. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 30 books, including The Ethnic Dimension in American History, Fourth Edition (with Heather Olson Beal, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (2002), which won the History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers, and was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non-fiction books in America for 2002.Randy W. Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. Among other books he is the author of A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War (2012), coeditor of Hollywood's America: Twentieth-Century America Through Film, Fourth Edition (with Steven Mintz, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and coauthor of A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (with James S. Olson, 2001), My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (with James S. Olson, 1998), and John Wayne American (with James S. Olson, 1996).

• Preface viiPrologue: LBJ and Vietnam ix1 Eternal War: The Vietnamese Heritage 12 The First Indochina War, 1945–1954 183 The Making of a Quagmire, 1954–1960 434 The New Frontier in Vietnam, 1961–1963 675 Planning a Tragedy, 1963–1965 936 Into the Abyss, 1965–1966 1177 The Mirage of Progress, 1966–1967 1388 Tet and the Year of the Monkey, 1968 1639 The Beginning of the End, 1969–1970 19010 The Fall of South Vietnam, 1970–1975 21511 Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities, 1975–1995 23712 Oliver Stone’s Vietnam 257Selected Bibliography 280A Vietnam War Chronology 283Glossary and Guide to Acronyms 292Index 295MapsMap 1 Indochina, 1995 xiiMap 2 Vietnam, 1945 to 1975 66Map 3 Major battles of the Tet offensive, January 1968 169