Collection: History Support Collection

The history of Vietnam, including the introduction of drastic reforms by the French in Indochina after the completion of the conquest and telling the story of colonial and contemporary Vietnam up to the fall of Ngo Dinh Diem

Takes readers on the tense US missions with the Marine helicopters and the Army HU1B's (the Hueys), the ground pounders on the embattled Delta area, and the Special Forces training of Montagnard troops to resist Communisits in the high jungles

The value of this book lies in the fact that it is an effort to present a many-sided approach to the Vietnam conflict. Describes the background of the conflict and the official standpoints of the USA, the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's republic.

This book describes the Vietnamese cultural and political tradition and the challenge of the West to it after 1858 and the political and religious movements which developed during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Papers from an international symposium at the Institute for the Study of the USSR in Munich in mid-1966, with participants from six countries.