The Second Indochina War

The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-96882-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Reihe: The Cold War in Asia

Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet, and American sources, Ang Cheng Guan provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam War (1954–1975) from the Vietnamese communists’ perspective.

In the last few decades, discourse on the Second Indochina War has shifted towards the South and its allies. To mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Ang revisits the experiences of the North. Focusing on scholarship published within the last 30 years, the book reexamines the 1954 Geneva Conference, the end of the First Vietnam War through the Second Vietnam War to the 1975 Fall of Saigon, bringing readers up to date on the current state of the field.

This book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of history, war studies, peace and conflict studies, as well as for those interested in the historical and contemporary implications of the Vietnam War.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng Guan, Ang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

State of the Field

PART I Prelude to a War

1 Decolonisation Meets the Cold War, 1948

2 From Geneva 1954 to the Resumption of Armed Struggle, 1959

3 Towards the Establishment of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, 1960

4 Laos Takes Centre Stage, 1960–1962

PART II Making of a Limited War

5 The Armed Struggle Intensifies, 1962–1966

6 Secret Peace Initiatives – “Marigold”, “Sunflower”, “Pennsylvania”, 1966–1967

7 The Siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive, 1968

PART III Ending the Vietnam War

8 The Start of Negotiations, 1968

9 Fighting and Negotiating, 1969–1970

10 Secret Negotiations in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, 1971–1973

11 From the Paris Peace Agreements, January 1973 to the End of the War, April 1975

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ang Cheng Guan is Professor of International History of Southeast Asia and Associate Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches the international history of contemporary Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia.