Chapter Three The Lean Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Maps VI
4. Preface to the Morningside Edition VII
5. Note on Vietnamese Names XIII
6. List of Abbreviations XIV
7. Introduction The United States and the Vietnam War 1
8. Part One History Read Backward The Final, First, and Second Victories of the Vietnamese Communists
9. Chapter One The Fall of Saigon 11
10. Chapter Two The "First Revolutionary Upsurge" 34
11. Chapter Three The Lean Years 61
12. Chapter Four The First Communist Victory 76
13. Chapter Five The French War 98
14. Part Two Communist Strengths and Establishment Weaknesses
15. Chapter Six Nationalism and Ideology 133
16. Chapter Seven Organization and Practice 169
17. Part Three The Second Indochina War
18. Chapter Eight The Diem Years 207
19. Chapter Nine The American War Escalates 240
20. Chapter Ten The End of the Thirty Years' War 266
21. Chapter Eleven The Wheels of History 296
22. Notes 317
23. Bibliography 345
24. Index 364
25. Addenda To Index 375