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The Vietnamese war : revolution and social change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elliott, David W. P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2003]
Series:Pacific Basin Institute book.
Subjects:
Định Tường (Vietnam : Province) > History.
Định Tường (Vietnam : Province) > Social conditions.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Vietnam > Định Tường (Province)
Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) > History.
Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) > Social conditions.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. The Vietnamese War: introduction
  • Postlude: an overview of the three decades of war
  • Prelude
  • Revolution
  • Resistence
  • The six years of peace: 1954-59
  • The tiger wakes
  • Forged by the hammer of the party
  • 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
  • The two main links in the revolutionary chain: taxes and conscription
  • v. 2. Year of the big change: 1965
  • The uncounted enemy
  • Winning hearts and minds
  • Battle for the villages
  • Stalemate
  • Tet: the untold story of the "general offensive and general uprising"
  • Tragic farewell
  • Holding on
  • Civil War
  • The final chapter.