Introduction
1: The Roots of Revolution
2: Colonialism and Cold War
3: An Anguished Peace
4: Escalation
5: War on Many Fronts
6: The Tet Offensive
7: The End of the American War
8: Wars Unending
Further Reading
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the
Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam, which
won the 2006 George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize of the
American Historical Association. He is also the co-editor of The
First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, and the
editor of The New York Times
Twentieth Century in Review: The Vietnam War.
"Crisply concise...Delves into the 'whys' of the war: why the
Vietnamese fought against the United States, why the great powers
were involved, why the war turned out as it did and why legacies of
the war linger."--Philip Seib,Dallas Morning News
"[A] succinct history of a frustrating war that raised several
painful issues America's leaders are now encountering for a second
time...A pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant
topic."--Kirkus Reviews
"Distills the US's longest war into a short, readable
narrative...This brief summary of the tangled negotiations that
prolonged the suffering caused by the war is perhaps Lawrence's
most valuable contribution, since it covers an area that more
extensive histories overlook...A valuable addition to any academic
library...Essential."--C.C. Lovett, CHOICE
"The book lives up to its brief and accessible
billing..."--Publishers Weekly
"In an elegant, almost elegiac prose style, Mark Lawrence takes us
through the history of the Vietnam War in a narrative that
transcends the usual focus on Vietnam and the United States. There
is no other one volume history of the war that so thoroughly
captures the war as an event in world history."--Marilyn B. Young,
author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
"A succinct and persuasive account of the Second Indochina War in
its global context. At a time when the current U.S. involvement in
Iraq evokes uneasy memories of America's controversial 'war of
choice' in Vietnam, Mark Lawrence's thoughtful analysis of that
previous conflict is highly welcome."--William J. Duiker, author of
Ho Chi Minh: A Life
"In this concise history of the Vietnam War, Mark Lawrence does a
masterful job of transforming a highly complex and controversial
subject into a brilliant and balanced histoire synthèse. A rare
feat."--Christopher Goscha, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
"It takes skill to condense a massive subject into a concise,
entertaining, and accessible book. This is what Mark Atwood
Lawrence accomplishes in his 224 page book The Vietnam War: A
Concise International History...This book might be even more
attractive than the larger volumes on the subject because it is
succint and focuses on the primary issues of the war."--Shelton
Woods, Resources
"In less than two hundred pages of clear, crisp prose, Mark Atwood
Lawrence succeeds in 'examining the American role within a broadly
interntional conext...' The information Lawrence packs into such a
short volume is most impressive: his 'introductory study' is both
comprehensive and economical...Lawrence achieves his principal
objective reminding us that the geopolitical environment decisively
shaped the Vietnam experience in the late nineteenth and
twentieth
centuries."--Gregory A. Daddis, Michigan War Studies Review
"Lawrence has produced a general survey of the war that will likely
become a standard resource in undergraduate courses...One cuold not
ask for a better 'concise' history than the survey Lawrence has
written. His prose style is always clear and often elegant...For a
subject that has all too often inspired overwrought critiques of
the various parties involved in the conflict, it is refreshing to
have a synthesis that adopts a more neutral and dispassionate
view
of the Vietnam War."--James McAllister, History: Reviews of New
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