Vietnam's American War: A History (Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations)

Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers, but they alone fail to explain why Hanoi bested Washington in the end. To make sense of the Vietnam War, we must look beyond the war itself. In his new work, Pierre Asselin explains the formative experiences and worldview of the men who devised communist strategies and tactics during the conflict, and analyzes their rationale and impact. Drawing on two decades of research in Vietnam's own archives, including classified policy statements and reports, Asselin expertly and straightforwardly relates the Vietnamese communist experience - and the reasons the war turned out the way it did.

• The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Very Short Introductions)
• The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
• Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
• The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents
• Beyond Combat: Women And Gender In The Vietnam War Era
• Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
• America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
• The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
• The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
• Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective)