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Vietnam's southern revolution : from peasant insurrection to total war

David Hunt
A social history of the Vietnam War -- An itinerant peasantry -- The peasant revolt of 1959 - 1960 -- Contested unities of the golden period -- The popular movement and the generational divide -- Modern girls and new women -- Escalation at ground level -- Mapping the exodus -- The American other -- Fate of the liberated zone -- "Live hour, live minute"--The Tet Offensive -- Appendix: The uses of a source
Print Book, English, 2008
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass, 2008