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Tears before the Rain
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 24.99Testimony from seventy eyewitnesses to the fall of Saigon--nurses, pilots, journalists, an ambassador, and others--illuminate this account of one of the most horrendous periods of this century. more...
The Sacred Willow
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 19.99Charting the lives of four generations of her family, the author traces her family's journey through tumultuous change, exploring different strands of Vietnamese history. It begins with her great-grandfather who rose from rural poverty to become an influential mandarin. more...
The Uncensored War
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 74.99This book is the first scholarly study of Vietnam news coverage, and shows how Kennedy and Johnson both tried to discourage press coverage, and how relations between the press and the Nixon administration completely broke down. more...
Short History of Cambodia
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 27.22A concise and readable history of Cambodia, from its rich and powerful past, through the era of French protection, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular tourist destination. more...
A Short History of Laos
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 27.22New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Laos from the little-known pre-modern dynastic era to the present day. more...
US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam. Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American military culture could not conform to President Kennedy?s... more...
Soviet-Vietnam Relations and the Role of China 1949-64
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95This new book analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders actually perceived China?s role in Vietnam relative to the Soviet role, it shows how these perceptions influenced the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. It also explains how and when... more...
US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist revolution in the developing world. This became the single... more...
Britain in Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention. The first part of the work links French colonialism with the native communist insurgency, while examining British and Foreign Office attitudes towards French Indochina. The study then looks at the key... more...
America's Shadow
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 67.50A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post?Cold War world and focuses on the Vietnam War, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. more...









