1st Edition
The Second Indochina War The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective
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
Biography
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.
