Description
| Summary: | 1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with himself as president. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and an examination of published memoirs and documents, David G. Marr has written a descriptive analysis of this crucial moment in Vietnamese history. He shows how Vietnam became a vortex of intense international and domestic competition for power, and how actions in Washington and Paris, as well as Saigon, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh's mountain headquarters, interacted and clashed, often with surprising results. --From publisher's description.
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| Item Description: | "A Philip E. Lilienthal book." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 602 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Awards: | American Historical Association John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 1996. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-578) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0585131147
9780585131146
0520212282
9780520212282
0520078330
9780520078338
9780520920392
0520920392 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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