INTRODUCTION: MAKING SENSE OF THE VIETNAM WARS- MARK PHILIP BRADLEY AND MARILYN B. YOUNG ; PART ONE: AMERICAN INTERVENTION AND THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS ; PART TWO: THE COMING OF WAR IN VIETNAM ; PART THREE: WARS END AND ENDLESS WARS ; SUGGESTED READINGS

Many of the 11 articles in Making Sense present wide-ranging examples of new and less conventional approaches to examining the war, with a particular focus on Vietnamese and international perspectives.... Essential.

"Many of the 11 articles in Making Sense present wide-ranging examples of new and less conventional approaches to examining the war, with a particular focus on Vietnamese and international perspectives...Essential."--K. Blaser, CHOICE "This is a path-breaking, exceptionally well-researched book by both distinguished scholars who link and reinterpret the entire 1940s to 1970s series of conflicts, and leading scholars who have explored new archival sources for the first time--not least in Vietnam itself--to provide fresh, significant, and revealing insights into key aspects of a many-layered, and ever-haunting, war."--Walter LaFeber, author of America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 "Examining the topic from local, national, and international perspectives, this important volume provides a superb introduction to the most recent scholarship on the Vietnam War."--George Herring, author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 "The cutting-edge research in this volume constitutes a crucial addition to the library of anyone interested in the histories of the Vietnam Wars."--Patrick Hagopian, The Journal of American History "There is little doubt that Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars will influence how future students of the war move forward in their efforts to understand the conflict."--James McAllister, History: Reviews of New Books "Important and stimulating...succeeds splendidly in its goal of making sense of the various dimensions of the Vietnam War. Indeed, this is an excellent volume: a must read for first-year students and scholars alike."--The European Legacy "Living up to its billing, the book offers a view of the Vietnam Wars from a very wide variety of perspectives with essays covering the more-or-less typical high politics, a variety of Vietnamese views, some microhistory of the revolution, and even offerings on international history and myth making."--James M. Carter, Journal of World History

Selling point: Inaugural volume in National History Center's Reinterpreting History series, which looks at how interpretations of key events change over time Selling point: New essays on Vietnam from every perspective written by a renowned, multigenerational group of contributors

Selling point: Inaugural volume in National History Center's Reinterpreting History series, which looks at how interpretations of key events change over time Selling point: New essays on Vietnam from every perspective written by a renowned, multigenerational group of contributors