Following Ho Chi Minh

Following Ho Chi Minh
Author: Tin Bui
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780824822330

"Here is a wealth of gossip level detail about life on the inside at the top in Hanoi--material Hanoi watchers lust after, seldom find." --Indochina Chronology"A rarity. A true North Vietnamese insider speaking candidly." --Book World, 30 April 2000

After the War was Over

After the War was Over
Author: Neil Sheehan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780679745075

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Bright Shining Lie revisits the scene of his magisterial account of the war in Vietnam and reveals the country that is just beginning to emerge from the war's ashes. "Enlightening . . . mesmerizing . . . luminously clear".--The New York Times.

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh
Author: Sophie Quinn-Judge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520235335

"A thoroughly researched and elegantly written account of what is arguably the most important topic in modern Vietnamese political history. [Quinn-Judge's] sources allow her to sketch a vivid, nuanced portrait of Ho Chi Minh and to unravel the complex interplay of domestic and international forces that shaped the historical emergence and development of Vietnamese Communism."--Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley

The Aggressors

The Aggressors
Author: Martin Scott Catino
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Communism
ISBN: 1608445305

Ho

Ho
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2007-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461637341

One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome. As depicted by Halberstam, Ho is first and foremost a nationalist and a patriot. He was also, according to the author, a pragmatist "who was able to turn the abstract into the practical and to embody the concept of revolution to his own people." This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh
Author: Jean Lacouture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1968
Genre: Vietnam
ISBN:

After Saigon's Fall

After Saigon's Fall
Author: Amanda C. Demmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108804748

Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US–Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

A Vietcong Memoir

A Vietcong Memoir
Author: Truong Nhu Tang
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986-03-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0394743091

"An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era."—Chicago Tribune When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation"—and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. This is his candid, revealing and unforgettable autobiography.