The Vietnam War - Lawrence, Mark Atwood (Associate Professor of History, Associate Pro
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In The Vietnam War, Mark Lawrence offers readers a superb short account of a key moment in world history, based on the latest European and American research and on newly opened archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam. While focusing on the American involvement from 1965 to 1975, the book reaches back well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, describing for instance how French colonialism sparked the 1945 Vietnamese revolution. The book also examines the aftermath of the war. A quick and reliable primer on an intensely relevant topic, this well researched and engaging volume offers an…mehr

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In The Vietnam War, Mark Lawrence offers readers a superb short account of a key moment in world history, based on the latest European and American research and on newly opened archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam. While focusing on the American involvement from 1965 to 1975, the book reaches back well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, describing for instance how French colonialism sparked the 1945 Vietnamese revolution. The book also examines the aftermath of the war. A quick and reliable primer on an intensely relevant topic, this well researched and engaging volume offers an invaluable overview of the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War examines the origins, course, and consequences of the wars in Vietnam, providing a balanced, broadly accessible narrative that takes account of the latest research in mulitple langauges and reflects changing scholarly understandings of the war.
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Autorenporträt
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.