New Zealand and the Vietnam War : Politics and Diplomacy.
Starting with the first Indochina War in the 1950s, this historical analysis covers the story of New Zealand's relations with Vietnam up to the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Exploring the diplomatic history of the engagement, which is not well known or understood, and showing that New Ze...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | Starting with the first Indochina War in the 1950s, this historical analysis covers the story of New Zealand's relations with Vietnam up to the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Exploring the diplomatic history of the engagement, which is not well known or understood, and showing that New Zealand officials and politicians in fact entered the war with extreme reluctance, this describes how the dispatch of troops to Vietnam divided the country, enraged a generation, and forced the government to publicly defend its policy. Readers quickly discover that the fallout from the Vietnam conflic. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (967 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781775581284 1775581284 |