45 Geneva to the American Combat Involvement in Vietnam (1954 - 1965) (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
45 Geneva to the American Combat Involvement in Vietnam (1954 - 1965) (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Moise, Edwin E. Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the War.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An : Revolutionary
Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1972.
*CORE* The author served in the US Army as a
district advisor, and later return as a private citizen to attempt to
analyse the political and social processes that he believed were
not explained by the conventional military analysis of the conflict.
The resultant work is a deeply insightful analysis into the contested
social realities of the war and the success of the VCP in Long
An Province (just southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta). This
is an extreme important study which focuses on the war as a social
revolution as well as a military contest.
Thayer, Carlyle A. War by Other Means : National Liberation
and Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1989.
*CORE* Thayer presents a systematic and precise
account of the formation and implementation of communist policy in
Vietnam between the Geneva Accords and the establishment of the
National Liberation Front (NLF) in 1960, the transtional period between the
First and Second Indochina Wars.
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