Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives

Mark Bradley, Jeffrey Clarke, William Duiker, David W. P. Elliott, James P. Harrison, George C. Herring, David Hunt

• Part 1 The Vietnamese Revolution and Political/Military Strategy; Chapter 1 An Improbable Opportunity: America and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s 1947 Initiative, Mark Bradley; Chapter 2 Waging Revolutionary War: The Evolution of Hanoi’s Strategy in the South, 1959–1965, William Duiker; Chapter 3 Tet: The 1968 General Offensive and General Uprising, Tran Van TraGeneral; Chapter 4 Hanoi’s Strategy in the Second Indochina War, David W.P. Elliott; Chapter 5 Love, War, and Revolution: Reflections on the Memoirs of Nguyen Thi Dinh, Kristin Pelzer; Part 2 The War from American Side; Chapter 6 U.S. Military Strategy and the Vietnam War, George R.Vickers; Chapter 7 History’s Heaviest Bombing, James P. Harrison; Chapter 8 The Strange “Dissent” of Robert S. McNamara, George C. Herring; Chapter 9 “How Do You Know if You’re Winning?”: Perception and Reality in America’s Military Performance in Vietnam, 1965–1970, Ronald H. Spector; Chapter 10 Direct and Indirect Effects of the Movement against the Vietnam War, Paul Joseph; Part 3 The War in the South and Cambodia; Chapter 11 Civil-Military Relations in South Vietnam and the American Advisory Effort, Jeffrey Clarke; Chapter 12 The Seven-Point Proposal of the PRG (July 1, 1971) and the U.S. Reaction, Luu Doan Huynh; Chapter 13 Post–Paris Agreement Struggles and the Fall of Saigon, Ngo Vinh Long; Chapter 14 The Impact on Cambodia of the U.S. Intervention in Vietnam, Ben Kiernan; Part 4 Retrospective and Postwar Issues; Chapter 15 The War That Should Not Have Been, Tran Van TraGeneral; Chapter 16 The American War in Vietnamese Memory, Luu Doan Huynh; Chapter 17 The Vietnam War in American Memory, Marilyn B. Young; Chapter 18 The Antiwar Movement after the War, David Hunt; Chapter 19 China and Vietnam: Looking for a New Version of an Old Relationship, Keith W. Taylor;