The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia: 1945-1975

by Alan J. Levine and Alan J Levine

This book puts American policy in Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War. Levine's wide-ranging work treats everything from the local appeals of Communist parties in the region and the peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism to the development of the domino theory and its consequences, from helicopter warfare to the antiwar movement. Treating harshly some of the orthodoxies that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275951243
• ISBN13: 9780275951245
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"