DAVID HUNT is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

This is a marvelous work of globally inflected social history that marks a sharp and welcome departure from much of the existing literature on the war. Hunt's book takes us for the first time deep into the interior worlds of war and revolution. It is also beautifully written, demonstrating a keen eye for the illuminating example and the succinct quotation. I expect it will find a wide and appreciative audience among general readers but also among scholars and students of the Vietnam War, modern Vietnamese history, peasant politics, the Cold War, and war and society more generally. - Mark Philip Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950.

DAVID HUNT is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

This is a marvelous work of globally inflected social history that marks a sharp and welcome departure from much of the existing literature on the war. Hunt's book takes us for the first time deep into the interior worlds of war and revolution. It is also beautifully written, demonstrating a keen eye for the illuminating example and the succinct quotation. I expect it will find a wide and appreciative audience among general readers but also among scholars and students of the Vietnam War, modern Vietnamese history, peasant politics, the Cold War, and war and society more generally. - Mark Philip Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950.

DAVID HUNT is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

This is a marvelous work of globally inflected social history that marks a sharp and welcome departure from much of the existing literature on the war. Hunt's book takes us for the first time deep into the interior worlds of war and revolution. It is also beautifully written, demonstrating a keen eye for the illuminating example and the succinct quotation. I expect it will find a wide and appreciative audience among general readers but also among scholars and students of the Vietnam War, modern Vietnamese history, peasant politics, the Cold War, and war and society more generally. - Mark Philip Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950.