The Vietnamese War
by David W. P. Elliott
"Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975"
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The Vietnamese War Book Details
War:
Vietnam War
Perspective:
Guerrilla Fighters
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Asia
Page Count:
862
Published Date:
2003
ISBN13:
9780765606020
The Vietnamese War Book Description
A single Vietnamese province in the Mekong Delta, My Tho, is the focus of this history of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement in the south. Elliott (Pomona College) has based the work largely on interviews conducted with prisoners and defectors conducted by the Rand Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense during 1965-74. He argues that land reform helped mobilize the peasantry to fight for the revolutionary cause, but that, along with the war, it set off a series of unintended consequences, not least of which was the creation of a large middle class that proved resistant to agricultural collectivization, ultimately provoking a crisis for the success of the revolution itself. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).