Table of Contents:
  • The Vietnamese War: Introduction
  • Postlude: an overview of the three decades of war
  • Prelude: the origins of revolution during the colonial period ...
  • Revolution: the August 1945 revolution and its consequences in My Tho ...
  • Resistance: the 1946-54 struggle against the French reconquest ...
  • The six years of peace: 1954-59
  • The tiger wakes: the renewed insurgency in 1959-60 ...
  • Forged by the hammer of the party: the political organization of the revolution ...
  • The strong-armed fist: military expansion, 1961-63
  • "Sharing rice and clothing": land and class
  • Pressed into the mold: organizing the villages
  • Going for broke: revolutionary upsurge following the death of Ngo Dinh Diem ...
  • The two main links in the revolutionary chain: taxes and conscription
  • End Volume 1.
  • Year of the big change: 1965
  • The uncounted enemy: special characteristics of Vietnamese guerrilla war in the Mekong Delta ...
  • Winning hearts and minds: early U.S.-Saigon pacification efforts, 1965-66
  • Battle for the villages: intensification of destruction in the countryside ...
  • Stalemate: arrival of U.S. troops in Mekong Delta ...
  • Tet: the untold story of the "general offensive and general uprising"
  • Tragic farewell: vast destruction and depopulation of the countryside ...
  • Holding on: a lull in the conflict during 1971 ...
  • Civil war: the 1972 spring offensive challenges "Vietnamization" ...
  • The final chapter: covers the final years of the conflict, 1973-75 ...
  • End Volume 2.