War crimes and the Vietnamese people

Survey textbook treatments of the governments and peoples of North and South Vietnam provide a barometer of the wisdom achieved by a generation of U.S. scholarship on the Vietnam War. In their discussions of the August Revolution and of the 1953–56 land reform and the Air War in the North and the Diem and Thieu regimes in the South, these books rework old controversies, thereby demonstrating the pertinence and limits of received paradigms. In particular, the war crimes debate, driven forward by the “Winter Soldiers” and others, continues to serve as a point of reference for understanding U.S. intervention and war-induced changes in Vietnam. An analysis of social consequences helps to situate the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War and the war in Vietnam's modern history

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  David R Hunt, David Hunt•Social History•1984

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