A comprehensive overview of warfare in Vietnamese history from the early efforts to free themselves from Chinese control, through the Indo-China and Vietnam Wars, the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, up to the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. Concentrating on the Vietnam War, the author explores the conflict from the Vietnamese perspective, demonstrating how for many Vietnamese the war was merely one of a long series of struggles against foreign domination. Encompassing socio-political, economic, diplomatic and cultural issues, this text provides an introduction to Vietnam's military history and will be of interest to students of 20th century American and Asian history.

    1 The background 2 French Indo-China 3 The Indo-China War (1946–54) 4 The Vietnam War: the United States takes over (1954–65) 5 The Vietnam War: the quagmire (1965–8) 6 The Vietnam War: the US search for a way out (1968–73) 7 The Third Vietnam War (1973–5) 8 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the war with China

    Biography

    Spencer C. Tucker, Virginia Military Institute