The Road to Dien Bien Phu : A History of the First War for Vietnam /

"On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power-and win. After nearly a decade of war, the country that had been forged in the crucible of the Indochina War had achieved a victory unseen in any o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goscha, Christopher E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Decolonization.
Communism.
Decolonisation > Viêt-nam > Histoire.
Guerre d'Indochine, 1946-1954.
Vietnam Conflict
Decolonization > Vietnam > History.
Communism > Vietnam > History > 20th century.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
Vietnam.
Vietnam > History, Military > 20th century.
Military history.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: states of war
  • The rise of the archipelago state
  • Building military force
  • The Asian routes of war
  • The city at war
  • Wiring war
  • Policing war
  • Trickle economics
  • The Levee en masse and war communism
  • Of rice and war
  • The road to Dien Bien Phu
  • Imperial dust: Ho Chi Minh's Associated States of Indochina
  • Dien Bien Phu: the changing of Heaven and Earth.

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