Geneva to the American Combat
Involvement in Vietnam (1954 - 1965)
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| 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 analyze 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 look 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 import study which focuses on the war as a social revolution as well as a military contest. |
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| 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 transitional period between the First and Second Indochina Wars. |
