In this vital work the author offers a fresh, insightful look at today's Vietnam-a country
struggling, still in its Communist thrall, with its own identity and future. The Vietnam War is …

The definitive history of modern Vietnam, lauded as" groundbreaking"(Guardian) and" the
best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English"(Wall Street Journal) and a finalist for …

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in
both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this …

The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this
groundbreaking work, KW Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics …

" In Vietnam, the newsman is reporting a strange, baffling, frontless war—and an even
stranger, more baffling, faceless political scene" writes M. Sivaram. In a factual, objective …

“An indispensable tool for college students and general readers, the only available text that
treats Vietnamese history in its entirety, from its beginning to the twenty-first century, as it …

Outside of its war with the United States, Vietnam's past has often been neglected and
understudied. Whether as an aspiring subordinate or a rebel province, Vietnam has been …

** The New York Times Bestseller**** The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam
War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick** The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict …

When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred" I
didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in …

When the Vietnam War finally ended in April 1975 with the communist capture of Saigon,
Vietnam itself became a closed country, out of bounds to western travellers and journalists …