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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822368403321

Autore

Ang Cheng Guan

Titolo

Ending the Vietnam War : the Vietnamese communists' perspective / / Ang Cheng Guan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-34128-8

1-134-34129-6

1-280-11301-4

0-203-98733-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 14

Disciplina

959.704/3

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Peace

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Vietnam (Democratic Republic)

Vietnam Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The start of negotiations -- The widening war -- Fighting and negotiating -- Negotiations at a standstill -- The peace agreement -- An incomplete victory -- Ending the war.

Sommario/riassunto

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists centre-stage in the story.  It is a sequel to the author's RoutledgeCurzon book The Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.