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This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the inter



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Map: Vietnam After The 1954 Geneva Conference, pg. xiii*Chapter 1. France Resumes Control and the War Begins, pg. 1*Chapter 2. The U.S. Joins the War, pg. 64*Chapter 3. Prelude to French Withdrawal, pg. 120*Chapter 4. Rattling the Saber, pg. 174*Chapter 5. The New U.S. Role in Vietnam, pg. 228*Chapter 6. Counter-Revolution and "Nation Building" During the Interval Between the Wars, pg. 282*Index, pg. 351

The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691610368, 978-0691610368
      ISBN10: 0691610363
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the inter



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Map: Vietnam After The 1954 Geneva Conference, pg. xiii*Chapter 1. France Resumes Control and the War Begins, pg. 1*Chapter 2. The U.S. Joins the War, pg. 64*Chapter 3. Prelude to French Withdrawal, pg. 120*Chapter 4. Rattling the Saber, pg. 174*Chapter 5. The New U.S. Role in Vietnam, pg. 228*Chapter 6. Counter-Revolution and "Nation Building" During the Interval Between the Wars, pg. 282*Index, pg. 351

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