{"product_id":"vietnam-at-war-9780199657988","title":"Vietnam at War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle  the thudding of helicopters overhead.  But there were in fact several Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France  a cold war turned hot with the United States  a civil war between North and South Vietnam and among the southern Vietnamese  a revolutionary war of ideas over what should guide Vietnamese society into its postcolonial future  and finally a war of memories after the official end of hostilities with the fall of Saigon in 1975.  This book looks at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced all of these conflicts  showing how the wars for Vietnam were rooted in fundamentally conflicting visions of what an independent Vietnam should mean that in many ways remain unresolved to this day.  Drawing upon twenty years of research  Mark Philip Bradley examines the thinking and the behaviour of the key wartime decision-makers in Hanoi and Saigon  while at the same time exploring how ordinary Vietnamese  northerners and southerners  men and women  soldiers and civilians  urban elites and rural peasants  radicals and conservatives  came to understand the thirty years of bloody warfare that unfolded around them - and how they made sense of its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929932464181,"sku":"ByrdShop_019965798X","price":88.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199657988.jpg?v=1794201550","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vietnam-at-war-9780199657988","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}