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A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi and the Making of the Paris Agreement (New Cold War History)
Pierre Asselin
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Paperback. Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Series: New Cold War History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBJK; HBJM; HBLW3; HBWS2; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, the peace it promised was doomed to unravel. By January of 1973, the continuing military stalemate and mounting difficulties on the domestic front forced both Washington and Hanoi to conclude that signing a vague and largely unworkable peace agreement as the most expedient way to achieve their most pressing objectives. For Washington, those objectives included the ... Read more
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, the peace it promised was doomed to unravel. By January of 1973, the continuing military stalemate and mounting difficulties on the domestic front forced both Washington and Hanoi to conclude that signing a vague and largely unworkable peace agreement as the most expedient way to achieve their most pressing objectives. For Washington, those objectives included the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
The New Cold War History
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807854174
SKU
V9780807854174
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About Pierre Asselin
Pierre Asselin is associate professor of history at Chaminade University of Honolulu.
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