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The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 2, Escalation and Stalemate

Andrew Preston editor Lien-Hang T Nguyen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:28th Nov '24

£120.00

This title is due to be published on 28th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Sheds light on the escalation of the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1968 and its development into a violent stalemate.

Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate in the years between 1963 and 1968. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.In great depth, Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate, beginning with the overthrow of the Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963 to the aftermath of the 1968 Tết Offensive. This five-year period was, for the most part, the fulcrum of a three-decades-long struggle to determine the future of Vietnam and was marked by rival spirals of escalation generated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States. The volume explores the war's military aspects on all sides, the politics of war in the two Vietnams and the United States, and the war's international and transnational dimensions in politics, protest, diplomacy, and economics, while also paying close attention to the agency of historical actors on both sides of the conflict in South Vietnam.

ISBN: 9781107105102

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 500g

712 pages