The Second Indochina War

Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet and American sources, Ang provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975) from the Vietnamese communists' perspective.

Ang Cheng Guan is Professor of International History of Southeast Asia and Associate Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He researches the international history of contemporary Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia.

Acknowledgements State of the Field PART I Prelude to a War 1 Decolonisation Meets the Cold War, 1948 2 From Geneva 1954 to the Resumption of Armed Struggle, 1959 3 Towards the Establishment of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, 1960 4 Laos Takes Centre Stage, 1960-1962 PART II Making of a Limited War 5 The Armed Struggle Intensifies, 1962-1966 6 Secret Peace Initiatives - "Marigold", "Sunflower", "Pennsylvania", 1966-1967 7 The Siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive, 1968 PART III Ending the Vietnam War 8 The Start of Negotiations, 1968 9 Fighting and Negotiating, 1969-1970 10 Secret Negotiations in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, 1971-1973 11 From the Paris Peace Agreements, January 1973 to the End of the War, April 1975 Selected Bibliography Index