Collection: History Support Collection

A firsthand testimony, from direct observation in both camps, by a European neutral who is more concerned with people and what war does to them than with the grand strategy

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

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

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.

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.