The Vietnam War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Lowe

   Pages 1-8

3. Origins and Alternatives: Comments, Counter-Facts and Commitments

   • Anthony Short

   Pages 9-29

4. Coping with the United States: Hanoi’s Search for an Effective Strategy

   • Nguyen Vu Tung

   Pages 30-61

5. South Vietnam

   • Ngo Vinh Long

   Pages 62-94

6. The United States and Vietnam

   • David L. Anderson

   Pages 95-114

7. The Anti Vietnam War Movement in the United States

   • Tom Wells

   Pages 115-132

8. Developing an Alliance: The Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1954–75

   • Ilya V. Gaiduk

   Pages 133-151

9. China and the Vietnam Wars

   • Chen Jian

   Pages 152-180

10. Australia and the Vietnam War

    • Carl Bridge

    Pages 181-195

11. International Aspects of the Vietnam War

    • Alastair Parker

    Pages 196-218

12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-253

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Whether viewed as a proxy encounter in the Cold War or as one of the last colonial wars, the conflict in Vietnam continues to attract enormous attention as one of the most divisive and traumatic events of the post-World War II period. For too long, the issues have tended to revolve almost exclusively around American culpability: the immolation of the US of an otherwise blameless region for reasons of incompetent Realpolitik (the view of one camp) or the terrible American sacrifice which blunted forever Communism's ability to expand into the rest of Asia (the view of the other).
With the end of the Cold War, this old argument now seems rather stale, and this book is an attempt, using a wide, international range of contributors, to explain to students the wider meaning and effects of the Vietnam conflict. The essays will provide ideal teaching material and give a greater depth to our understanding of the war.

• China
• Cold War
• USA
• Vietnam
• Vietnam War

• University of Manchester, UK

  Peter Lowe

PETER LOWE was one time Reader of History at Manchester University, UK.

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