This book emphasizes the Vietnamese dimensions of a conflict in which all of Indochina-Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia-was treated as a single strategic unit. It focuses on the experience, strategies, leadership, and internal politics of the revolutionary side.

William S. Turley, associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University, has been researching Vietnamese communism since 1970, including extensive work in Vietnam. He has spent time in Southeast Asia as a Ford Foundation Research Associate at Saigon University (1972-1973) and a Fulbright Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1982-1984); his numerous publications include Vietnamese Communism in Comparative Perspective (Westview 1980).

Preface -- Legacies of Time -- Vietnam Between Two Wars -- Fateful Decisions -- Americanization -- Air War -- Tet -- The Road to Paris -- Vietnam Without the United States -- Of Lessons and Their Price -- Suggested Readings