Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective,9780415326094

Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective

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ISBN13: 9780415326094
ISBN10: 0415326095
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-11-06
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists center-stage in the story. It is a sequel to the author's RoutledgeCurzon bookThe Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.

Author Biography

Ang Cheng Guan is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Map x
Introduction 1(4)
Overview of the book 5(4)
1 The start of negotiations 9(28)
Decision to negotiate
9(1)
The Tet Offensive - Phase II
10(1)
The start of the talks in Paris
11(1)
The Tet Offensive - Phase III
12(1)
Le Duc Tho-Harriman private meetings: the first five sessions
13(1)
Hiccups and resumption of talks
14(2)
The military situation in 1968 reviewed
16(1)
The Four-Party Conference
17(1)
The military situation in early 1969
18(2)
Policy differences within the Hanoi leadership
20(2)
The NLF's ten-point plan and Nixon's eight-point plan
22(2)
Establishment of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRGSVN)
24(1)
Stalemate in Paris
25(1)
Hanoi and Sino-Soviet relations, 1969
26(2)
Ho Chi Minh's death and its aftermath
28(4)
Military developments in the South, 1969
32(2)
Military developments in Laos
34(1)
The negotiations in 1969 reviewed
35(2)
2 The widening war 37(23)
The 18th Plenary Session of the Lao Dong Party
37(1)
Reorganising the VPA
38(4)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger first secret meeting (21 February 1970)
42(1)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger second secret meeting (16 March 1970)
43(1)
Communist activities in Cambodia
43(2)
The deposition of Sihanouk and its aftermath
45(3)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger third secret meeting (4 April 1970)
48(1)
Indochinese Summit Conference (24-25 April 1970)
49(1)
Tensions between the Vietnamese and Cambodian communists
49(1)
Military developments in Cambodia
50(3)
Le Duan - 'first among equals'
53(1)
Xuan Thuy-Kissinger secret meeting (7 September 1970)
54(2)
Communist military preparations
56(2)
Xuna Thuy-Kissinger secret meeting (27 September 1970)
58(2)
3 Fighting and negotiating 60(27)
Kissinger's approach rebuffed
60(1)
The 19th Plenary Session of the Lao Dong Party
60(1)
COSVN Directive No. O1/CT71
61(1)
Communist spring-summer 1971 counter-offensives: Route 9-southern Laos and Cambodia
62(5)
Sino-Vietnamese communists' relations
67(3)
Communist counter-offensive: Tay Nguyen
70(1)
Vietnamese-Cambodian communists' relations
71(1)
Xuan Thuy-Kissinger meeting (31 May 1971)
71(2)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (26 June 1971)
73(1)
Hanoi's analysis of the situation in mid-1971
74(1)
Kissinger's secret visit to Beijing
75(2)
Vietnamese communists' relations with Beijing and Moscow, 1971
77(2)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (12 July 1971)
79(1)
Kissinger's new eight-point plan
80(1)
Vietnamese communists' relations with Moscow, 1971
81(1)
Kissinger's second visit to Beijing
82(1)
Kissinger's new offer
83(2)
Hanoi's analysis of the situation at the end of 1971
85(2)
4 Negotiations at a standstill 87(16)
Secret meetings made public
87(1)
Nixon's visit to China
87(2)
Communist military preparations
89(2)
The 20th Plenary Session of the Lao Dong Party
91(1)
The 1972 Easter Offensive
92(3)
US bombing campaign
95(2)
Vietnam-Soviet relations, 1972
97(1)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (2 May 1972)
98(1)
The US-Soviet Summit meeting
99(1)
A change of strategy
100(3)
5 The peace agreement 103(24)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger fourteenth meeting (19 July 1972)
103(1)
Hanoi's new negotiation strategy
104(1)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meetings (1 and 14 August 1972)
105(2)
Vietnamese communists' relations with Beijing and Moscow
107(1)
Le Duc Tho-Kissinger meeting (15 September 1972)
108(1)
The 26-27 September 1972 intensive negotiations
109(2)
The communist plan for a 'general uprising' (4 October 1972)
111(1)
The 8-12 October 1972 negotiations
111(2)
Xuan Thuy-Kissinger meeting (17 October 1972)
113(2)
The peace agreement aborted
115(1)
Another cycle of negotiations
115(2)
Linebacker II and counter-offensives
117(3)
Another attempt at negotiation
120(2)
The final agreement
122(1)
Laying the groundwork for the agreement
123(4)
6 An incomplete victory 127(23)
Communist strategy for the South
127(1)
COSVN meeting (16-17 March 1973)
128(1)
COSVN Directive 3/CT/73
129(2)
The journey to Hanoi
131(1)
Meeting with Le Duan
132(2)
Discussions with the Central Military Committee
134(1)
Developments in South Vietnam reviewed
134(2)
The Politburo meeting (May June 1973)
136(3)
Developments in North Vietnam
139(1)
Developments in Laos
140(1)
Developments in Cambodia
141(1)
Vietnamese communists' relations with China and the USSR, 1973
142(1)
Hanoi, Beijing and the on-going conflict in Cambodia
143(2)
COSVN Conference (September 1973)
145(1)
Military preparations
146(1)
Resolution 21 (15 October 1973) and COSVN Resolution 12
147(1)
Developments in the US
148(2)
7 Ending the war 150(16)
The situation in the South
150(1)
Military preparations
151(3)
Meeting with Le Duan at Do Son
154(2)
COSVN conference (July 1974)
156(1)
Politburo meeting (September-October 1974)
156(2)
Politburo meeting (December 1974 January 1975)
158(1)
The fighting in the South
159(2)
The 1974-1975 dry season offensive
161(3)
Vietnamese communists' relations with Beijing and Moscow
164(1)
The Ho Chi Minh campaign
165(1)
Notes 166(19)
Select bibliography 185(11)
Index 196

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