Contents : Cochinchina in 1859 / by Pierre Barrelon Saigon / by Pierre Barrelon An eight day embassy to Hue (Kingdom of Annam) / by Brossard de Corbigny The ancient monuments of the Chams / by Charles Lemire Hanoi, the recent transformations of Tonkin's capital / by Gaston Cahen Originally published in: Tour du Monde. Between 1860 et 1907
1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh pr…
An expanded English version of La fin d'une guerre; Indochine 1954, by Jean Lacouture and Philippe Devillers, first published in 1960. Bibliography: p. 399-403
Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular ins…
Gives an accurate and objective analysis of the hostilities at home and abroad. This edition provides fuller discussions of domestic opposition to the war and the relationship between the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong. It also includes information from the Johnson Library and other released archives.
V. 1 : From colonialism to the Vietminh V. 2 : Vietnam at war