ABSTRACT

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists centre-stage in the story. It is a sequel to the author's Routledge Curzon book The Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|28 pages

The start of negotiations

chapter 2|23 pages

The widening war

chapter 3|27 pages

Fighting and negotiating

chapter 4|16 pages

Negotiations at a standstill

chapter 5|24 pages

The peace agreement

chapter 6|23 pages

An incomplete victory

chapter 7|16 pages

Ending the war