First Vietnam War Colonial Conflict And Cold War Crisis

How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? These illuminating essays examine various dimensions of the conflict, from the nature of the Vietnamese revolution to the roles of China, Britain, and France to the origins of the American war in Indochina. Vietnam stood at the center of the grand clash in the twentieth century between not only East and West but also North and South, a deadly convergence of colonialism and Cold War tensions. Book jacket.Lawrence, Mark Atwood is the author of 'First Vietnam War Colonial Conflict And Cold War Crisis', published 2007 under ISBN 9780674023925 and ISBN 0674023927.