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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (The New Cold War History) Paperback – February 1, 2016

by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen (Author)

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While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam.
Hanoi's War renders transparent the internal workings of America's most elusive enemy during the Cold War and shows that the war fought during the peace negotiations was bloodier and much more wide ranging than it had been previously. Using never-before-seen archival materials from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of war-making and peace-making not only from the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, presenting a uniquely international portrait.

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Whatever you think you know about the war in Vietnam will be challenged, revised, and deepened by this remarkable book. . . . Hanoi's War is a must-read. . . .The book deserves more attention than it has thus far received. It enriches our understanding of the War in Vietnam and by implication, subsequent American commitments, including the war in Afghanistan.--Artfuse

Hanoi's War is first-rate. The scope is ambitious. . . . The value of Hanoi's War is its use of existing records to produce a new interpretation of Hanoi's struggle. It adds a valuable new chapter to the international history of the war.--Journal of Military History

Groundbreaking. . . . Challenges many long-held assumptions about North Vietnam's leadership and military and diplomatic strategies.--HistoryNet.com

A major contribution to Vietnam War scholarship in general.--Diplomatic History

A well written, meticulously researched book that will appeal to both military and general readers.--Michigan War Studies Review

One of the most important books on the Vietnam War to come along in some time. . . . A remarkable piece of scholarship that serves to correct many of the commonly held ideas about how the war was conducted on the other side.--Military Review

[A] valuable narrative of Hanoi's diplomatic struggles.--Times Literary Supplement

Using interviews with key actors and previously unavailable sources from Vietnamese archives, Nguyen uncovers the complexity and lack of uniformity of North Vietnam's decision-making. . . . Unlike most narratives, hers starts with a thorough analysis of the rise to power of the figures most central to the DRV decision-making during the American phase of the war.--History: Reviews of New Books

A fine example of the emerging international history of the Vietnam War.--Pacific Historical Review

An indispensable guide to understanding.--Journal of Cold War Studies

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Nguyen's magnificent book is truly an international history of the war, with new Vietnamese sources and serious attention to international actors. Scholars of the Vietnam War and the Cold War will be in her debt.--Andrew Preston, Cambridge University

Using important new documentation from across the world, most notably Vietnam, Lien-Hang Nguyen has written the first truly authoritative account of the negotiations that led to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. Hanoi's War is an extraordinary achievement, an indispensable contribution to the rapidly changing history of the conflicts in Vietnam.--George C. Herring, author of America's Longest War: The United States in Vietnam, 1950-1975

Nguyen's beautifully crafted and original book makes a transformative contribution to the study of the Vietnam wars. In offering a compelling analysis of newly available Vietnamese source material set against a capacious international canvas, Nguyen lets us fully understand how and why this tragic war finally came to an end. No one has so richly captured how the Vietnamese made their own history, and at the same time produced such a luminous work of international history.--Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago

At last, a genuinely international history of the Vietnam war that solidly rests on Vietnamese sources in order to offer a deep analysis of the war from the other side. This is one of the most important books published on the Vietnam War in the last thirty years.--Marilyn B. Young, New York University

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Series: The New Cold War History
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; Reprint edition (February 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781469628356
ISBN-13: 978-1469628356
ASIN: 146962835X
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Abhilash Nambiar

A Le Duan focused narrative on the Vietnam's American war

January 31, 2016

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This is not a conclusive book on the Vietnam war from the North Vietnam perspective. It is a good book. One I hope of many more to come. The title is too generic. It does not include much about the time period between the withdrawal of US troops and the conquering of South Vietnam. I guess you have to find some way to simplify complex events and the author seems to have done that by focusing on Le Duan, the general secretary of the Communist Part of Vietnam. Not a bad idea, but it leaves one wanting to know more. A more apt title for the book should be Le Duan's War, because that is what it is actually.

I like the way Cheng Guan Ang approached the problem in his books "The Vietnam War from the Other Side" and "
Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective". He focused more on the processes involved rather than heavy weight and visible personalities. That approach has its own shortcomings of course. Leaves you wanting to know a bit about the personalities.

As the war begins to inch its way to the history books, as a new generation not touched by its horrors begins to grow up on both sides. We can see more books like this helping pave the way for understanding and reconciliation.

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M Mahoney

Viet Nam War from North VN perspective

July 28, 2017

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This is a great book that describes the Viet Nam war from the perspective of the leaders of North Viet Nam. It goes into exquisite detail of the thinking and planning of the war. It should be noted that the true leaders of policy were not Ho Chi Minh and General Giap. These 2 leaders were credited by many in the West as the brains behind the movement. This book gives a better insight into who truly dictated policy. The book is well researched with a first look into NVN archives.

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Robert

I have been reading an untold number of books about ...

May 7, 2018

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I have been reading an untold number of books about this unusual war, because I was at the "right" age and was "luckily" not there. Finally I found an balanced , a unbiased book. It is not viewed through an American nor Vietnamese eye. Here one can see what was really going on, unfortunately.

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Jerome Wermuth

A must read for those with an interest in Vietnam

July 25, 2013

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Hanoi's War is an excellent addition to the New Cold War History Series edited by Arne Wested. The potential reader needs to know this is a scholarly book and not a history such as Rick Atkinson's latest.

For the most part the author keeps her cool concerning some of the events and players she covers. Her disdain for both Nixon and Kissinger shows through (how can it not?), and her sense of the risible shows through in her narration of Le Duan's marital life. Here is a man who holds the USSR, the PRC, and the United States at bay for a decade, and doesn't have the courage to tell his first family to get lost.

If you lived through that period as an adult, you might find the book saddening. Much of what we thought was going on, was; except we didnt know how much the United States was being manipulated by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's leadership, a very small group of fanatic ideologues. They were not going to change, and they just hung in there for years, politically as well as militarily. Of course, the war dragged on due to Nixon's "peace with honor" schtick and Kissinger's toadyism and hubris. And a whole lot more people died. The author's perspective on these issues is clear and well documented. We can hope our leaders would read such a book; they can learn from it.

And what was gained by either side? Nixon resigns, the US doubts itself and still does, Vietnam goes from being a player on the international scene to being a backwater.

At least no one is being killed there anymore.

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A 6-year vet of Vietnam, I'm working on an historically accurate piece of fiction about the war, but was up against a wall of opacity regarding anything accurate about the inner workings of North Vietnam's decision-making. Lien-Hang's book is a godsend, and her documentation is a marvel. I recommend it as invaluable to any serious student of the war. How we managed to be forced to give up despite all the resources we had on call has always been a puzzlement; now even moreso, when it's clear how much infighting the North Vietnamese regime indulged itself in from start to finish, yet still outdistanced us.

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