Indochina and Vietnam: the thirty-five-year war, 1940-1975

Introduction

Part I. An Imperial Conquest

1. France in the Far East

2. War, Defeat, and Resurgence: 1940-1952

3. Colonial Exit: Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Conference, 1953-1954

Part II. Cold War Vietnam

1. North and South Vietnam

2. The Eisenhower Approach: 1953-1960

3. Kennedy and the Crisis of 1963

Part III. The American War

1. Americanizing the War

2. Rising Opposition to the War

3. The Breaking Point

4. Vietnamization

5. The War Drags On

Chronology 1939-1975

Selected Facts and Figures

Co-author's Note

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index