Where the Domino Fell : America and Vietnam 1945 - 2010 (Paperback, 6 ed)

Preface vii

Prologue: LBJ and Vietnam ix

1 Eternal War: The Vietnamese Heritage 1

2 The First Indochina War, 1945–1954 18

3 The Making of a Quagmire, 1954–1960 43

4 The New Frontier in Vietnam, 1961–1963 67

5 Planning a Tragedy, 1963–1965 93

6 Into the Abyss, 1965–1966 117

7 The Mirage of Progress, 1966–1967 138

8 Tet and the Year of the Monkey, 1968 163

9 The Beginning of the End, 1969–1970 190

10 The Fall of South Vietnam, 1970–1975 215

11 Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities, 1975–1995 237

12 Oliver Stone’s Vietnam 257

Selected Bibliography 280

A Vietnam War Chronology 283

Glossary and Guide to Acronyms 292

Index 295

Maps

Map 1 Indochina, 1995 xii

Map 2 Vietnam, 1945 to 1975 66

Map 3 Major battles of the Tet offensive, January 1968 169