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  • Vietnam's American War

    A New History

    by Pierre Asselin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    The American war in Vietnam was so much more than the sum of its battles. To make sense of it, we must look beyond the conflict itself. We must understand its context and, above all, the formative experiences, worldview, and motivations of those who devised communist strategies and tactics. Vietnam's American War, now in its second edition, remains a story of how and why Hanoi won. However, this ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Vietnam's American War

    A History

    by Pierre Asselin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers, but they alone fail to explain why Hanoi bested Washington in the end. To make sense of the Vietnam ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Bitter Peace

    Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement

    by Pierre Asselin ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America’s involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, he argues, the peace it promised was doomed to unravel.By January of 1973, the continuing military stalemate and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965

    by Pierre Asselin ...
    Series Book 7 - From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective
    Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths

    by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
    The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Vodou in Haitian Memory

    The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination

    by Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Brandon R. Byrd, Patrick Delices, Crystal Andrea Felima, Myriam Moïse, Shallum Pierre, Asselin Charles ...
    Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life including literature, history, law, politics, painting, music, and art. Competing voices and conflicting ideas ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Hanoi's War

    An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

    by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    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 ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Embers of War

    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    by Fredrik Logevall ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARSWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTh... ... Read more

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  • Ho Chi Minh

    A Life

    by William J Duiker ...
    "Magnificent . . . [It] has managed not only to fill in the missing pieces of Ho's life but to provide the best account of Ho as a diplomat and a strategist." — The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable BookA Los Angeles Times Best Book of the YearTo grasp the complicated causes and co... ... Read more

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  • The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam

    by Christopher Goscha ...
    WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as ... Read more

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  • The Vietnam War:A Concise International History

    A Concise International History

    by Mark Atwood Lawrence ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war. His narrative begins well before American forces set ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD