Subtitled Revolution Versus Containment, 1955-1961. "In placing the conflict in a global perspective, Smith has added a new dimension to our knowledge of the war and provided a useful corrective to the recent tendency to see the conflict in purely bilateral terms."--Journal of Asian and African Studies. " . . . significant contributions to an understanding of the global context of decision making for Vietnam in the late l950s . . . "--American Historical Review.
