Hanois War, LienHang T. Nguyen
Hanois War, LienHang T. Nguyen
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Hanoi's War
An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

Author: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2012

Synopsis

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of US involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the listener from the marshyMekong Deltaswamps to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam. Hanois Warrenders transparent the internal workings of Americas most elusive enemy during the Cold War and shows that the war fought during the peace negotiations was bloodier and much more far-reaching than thought before. Using never-before-seen archival materials from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of warmaking and peacemaking not only from the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, presenting a uniquely international portrait.

About Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen earned her PhD from Yale in 2008 and is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky. In 1975, her family fled Saigon by boat and was picked up by the US 7th fleet. She is now a member of the American Historical Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Association for Asian Studies and serves on the executive committee of the Vietnam Studies Group. She received an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on February 16, 2014

Anyone who's seriously interested in the Vietnam war should read this book. Drawing on information from North Vietnamese archives, Nguyen (I'm assuming she's using the western conventions for order of names, apologies if I have that wrong) complicates the standard story that posits a more-or-less un......more

Goodreads review by Brad on April 10, 2018

This was a much needed addition to the scholarship of the War for Peace in Vietnam (the name given to the war by the Vietnamese themselves). It is an international look at the war from a Vietnamese voice (and therefor perspective), foregrounding the Vietnamese players on either side of the War for P......more

Goodreads review by Viet on April 29, 2017

I am really glad that I was able to finish this book on the "Reunification Day" - the day that the Vietnam War was ended and Vietnam-the country was able to be reunified at last. For this is a terrific book in which the author excellently "connected the dots" by digging through a vast trove of histo......more

Goodreads review by Ted on June 17, 2022

For me this book is foundational for reading about the American war in Viet Nam. It details vital insight and background in particular during the sixties about which I knew nothing. The people I assumed were leading Viet Nam during the sixties were not actually in charge. I am not competent to offer......more

Goodreads review by Milton on July 15, 2015

Audio book. A history of the Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese perspective. The book contains really two large theme: 1) a biography of Le Duan, and 2) the Diplomatic activities on all sides near the end of the war. The author consulted recently available NVA archives to get at a lot of the infor......more

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