Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power - Hardcover

Marr, David G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520078330 ISBN 13: 9780520078338

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1995

Synopsis

1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with himself as president. Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews, and an examination of published memoirs and documents, David G. Marr has written a richly detailed and descriptive analysis of this crucial moment in Vietnamese history. He shows how Vietnam became a vortex of intense international and domestic competition for power, and how actions in Washington and Paris, as well as Saigon, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh's mountain headquarters, interacted and clashed, often with surprising results. Marr's book probes the ways in which war and revolution sustain each other, tracing a process that will interest political scientists and sociologists as well as historians and Southeast Asia specialists.

About this title

About the Author:

David G. Marr is Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Review:

"A winning combination of scholarly tome and readable history. . . . Marr tells this extremely complicated story very well, backing up his sharp analysis with mountains of supporting factual evidence. . . . Meticulous and objective, an indispensable document for understaning the roots of American involvement in Vietnam."--"Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520078330
• ISBN 13: 9780520078338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 587