![]() Their relationship with neighboring countries - Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia - has been tense with warfare and animosity. Their religion remains to this day primarily ancestor worship / Confuscism with a smattering of Buddhism and Catholicism. The Vietnamese are a proud people that issue from southern China and live on the eastern coast of the Indochinese peninsula. ![]() ![]() The second part is more detailed on the American War, ending as I said in '72 after the Tet Offensive and Nixon's schizophrenic intensification of the war while withdrawing troops. As stated in the title, the book is split into two parts: the first part is an attempt to explain the Vietnamese as a people before colonization, during the French Indochina period and during the two Indochina wars. A triple crown winner (Bancroft Prize, National Book Award and Pulitzer), it is an impressive piece of scholarship and analysis. ![]() Outstanding analysis of the Vietnamese people and the American War from Frances FitzGerald written in 1972, so 3 years before the fall of Saigon. ![]()
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