Choosing War
Subtitle: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780520229198
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian history: Vietnam War; Central government policies; Warfare & Defence; Sociology; International Relations - General; Social Science; History - Military / War; USA; Vietnam; Asia - Southeast Asia; Military - Vietnam War; History / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: We begin not in Washington or Saigon or Hanoi but in Paris: Paris with its long and tangled attachment to the affairs of Vietnam, Paris where French leaders had ruled Indochina for three-quarters of a century and where generations of privileged Vietnamese had gone to be educated.