The Origins of the Vietnam War (Seminar Studies In History)

by Fredrik Logevall (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $45.06

  Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full-scale war in 1965, and places events against their full international background.