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Offers a well-written,important step toward a refocus on the international context of an important Cold War conflict. -- Douglas Porch Journal of Military History (04/01/2008)

Few Americans realize that the U.S. war in Vietnam was preceded by an equally destructive war waged by French troops attempting to reestablish French colonial domination over the country after Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence in Hanoi in 1945. Even fewer Americans are aware of the extent of U.S. involvement in the French war, and are equally ignorant of the astonishing extent to which Americans began their war in Vietnam from the same mistaken assumptions as the French, repeating many of the same errors of judgment as the French. This new collection will do much to dispel that ignorance. -- C. L. Yates Choice 20071001 Offers a well-written,important step toward a refocus on the international context of an important Cold War conflict. -- Douglas Porch Journal of Military History 20080401 Offers a well written, important step toward a refocus on the international context of an important Cold War conflict. -- Douglas Porch Journal of Military History 20080401

Few Americans realize that the U.S. war in Vietnam was preceded by an equally destructive war waged by French troops attempting to reestablish French colonial domination over the country after Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence in Hanoi in 1945. Even fewer Americans are aware of the extent of U.S. involvement in the French war, and are equally ignorant of the astonishing extent to which Americans began their war in Vietnam from the same mistaken assumptions as the French, repeating many of the same errors of judgment as the French. This new collection will do much to dispel that ignorance.--C. L. Yates Choice (10/01/2007)

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Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin. Fredrik Logevall is Professor of History at Cornell University.

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