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03243aam a2200397 i 4500 001 A56C8A8CAF2511EC897049F049ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220329010112 008 210308s2022 njuabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021010045 020 $a 0691180164 020 $a 9780691180168 035 $a (OCoLC)1242023109 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d GO4 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-vt--- 082 00 $a 959.704/1 $2 23 100 1 $a Goscha, Christopher E., $e author. 245 14 $a The road to Dien Bien Phu : $b a history of the first war for Vietnam / $c Christopher Goscha. 246 30 $a History of the first war for Vietnam 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xi, 15 unnumbered pages, 514 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: states of war -- The rise of the archipelago state -- Building military force -- The Asian routes of war -- The city at war -- Wiring war -- Policing war -- Trickle economics -- The LeveÌe en masse and war communism -- Of rice and war -- The road to Dien Bien Phu -- Imperial dust: Ho Chi Minh's Associated States of Indochina -- Dien Bien Phu: the changing of Heaven and Earth. 520 $a "On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power-and win. After nearly a decade of war, the country that had been forged in the crucible of the Indochina War had achieved a victory unseen in any other movement for national liberation. In The Road to Dien Bien Phu, historian Christopher Goscha explains the making of this extraordinary battle, telling the first comprehensive history of how Vietnam brought down the French in the Indochina War. Between September 1945, when Ho Chi Minh declared modern Vietnam's birth, and May 1954, Vietnam moved from a decentralized guerilla polity to a single-party militarized state. Goscha illuminates the making of the militarized nervous system that would realize the victory at Dien Bien Phu. But he is also attuned to how society mobilized behind war communism. This mobilization fortified the single-party state and would create modern Vietnam. This book radically changes how we understand both the first Vietnam War and the one the Americans would fight later. Shedding light on a larger arc of communist warfare and statecraft that runs from the former Soviet Union to the communist states of China and North Korea, Goscha tells a global story of how Vietnam came to be"-- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Indochinese War, 1946-1954. 650 0 $a Communism $z Vietnam $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Decolonization $z Vietnam $x History. 651 0 $a Vietnam $x History, Military $y 20th century. 941 $a 4 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230509010357.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20221012010657.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220405013952.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220329010830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A56C8A8CAF2511EC897049F049ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search