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The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2008)

by Mark Atwood Lawrence(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0195314654 (ISBN13: 9780195314656)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: Read this for a grad class. As someone else on here said - the title sums it up pretty well. This is a short, sweet, and to the point survey of the Vietnam War from a more international, less American viewpoint. What makes this particular book 4-star worthy when I've read quite a bit on Vietnam is that Lawrence gives significant weight to the pre-American involvement origins of the Vietnamese conflict, which is so readily overlooked by many American historians. Should I ever find myself in such a position, I would recommend this book for undergrad classes on related topics that need a concise overview of the War.
review 2: Actually pretty much what it says in the title. It explores the origins of the Vietnam War from back in the time of French colonialism, pass... morees through the attempts by the French to reassert themselves after WWII, and then discusses the American involvement, but from what seems to an outsider like a reasonably balanced perspective. A pretty decent primer on a very complicated subject, with eerie echoes of what's happening in the Middle East. less

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