Vietnam at war [electronic resource] / Mark Philip Bradley.

ISBN:

9780191539350

9780192803498

Title:

Vietnam at war [electronic resource] / Mark Philip Bradley.

Author:

Bradley, Mark, 1961-

Personal Author:

Bradley, Mark, 1961-

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Map of Vietnam at War, 1954-1975 -- 1. Visions of the Future -- 2. The French War -- 3. The Coming of the American War -- 4. Experiencing War -- 5. War's End.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Võ, Nguyên Giáp, 1911-2013.

Subject Term:

Indochinese War, 1946-1954.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Geographic Term:

Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead.But there were in fact several Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among the southern Vietnamese, a revolutionary war of ideas over what should guide Vietnamese society into its postcolonial future, and finally a war of memories after the official end of hostilities with the fall of Saigon in 1975. This book looks at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced all of these conflicts, showinghow the wars for Vietnam were rooted in fundamentally conflicting visions of what an independent Vietnam should mean that in many ways remain unresolved to this day.Drawing upon twenty years of research, Mark Philip Bradley examines the thinking and the behaviour of the key wartime decisionmakers in Hanoi and Saigon, while at the same time exploring how ordinary Vietnamese people, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, urban elites and rural peasants, radicals and conservatives, came to understand the thirty years of bloody warfare that unfolded around them--and how they made sense of its aftermath.

Author Notes

Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at The University of Chicago. He is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950, which won the Association for Asian Studies Harry Benda Prize. He is also co-editor of Making the Forever War, Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts afterthe Transnational Turn, and Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars.

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For years, historians have covered the Vietnam War from the perspectives of international conflict, civil war, or a war of national liberation. In many ways, Vietnam was all those things. However, Bradley (Univ. of Chicago; Imagining Vietnam and America, CH, Jun'01, 38-5726) follows a different approach in his new book. Unlike others who focus on geopolitical concerns, Bradley blends those features into a workable mosaic focusing on visions of a future Vietnam following the final victory of Vietnamese nationalism. The author notes that all the outside players, whether Americans, Chinese, or Soviets, underestimated the Vietnamese and saw them as pawns on the world stage. The strength of Bradley's volume refutes that assumption and demonstrates that the Vietnamese, regardless of where they lived, sought to follow their own destiny. A clear indication of that came from intellectuals who challenged traditional authority, particularly Viet Phuong, secretary to Pham Van Dong, the prime minister of North Vietnam, who questioned the North's ideological framework that justified the national cost of the conflict. No single volume does more to further understanding of the Vietnam War than Bradley's brilliant summary. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. C. C. Lovett Emporia State University

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