1. This is an OK list (except for Kissinger book) but also represents an insanely American-centric view of war. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/books/20-must-read-books-on-the-vietnam-war.html?emc=edit_bk_20170915&nl=book-review&nlid=1811197&te=1&referer= …
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12. As a friend just reminded me, the list contains none of the really critical scholarly literature: no Marilyn Young, no Kolko, no LaFeber
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No Gabriel Kolko either, for an American-authored account that is sympathetic to the North.
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Yeah, none of the very strong revisionist literature. No Marilyn Young, Lefeber etc.
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B Fall's Hell in a Very Small Place, on Dien Bien Phu and the truly astonishing incompetence of the French that drew the US into Vietnam.
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It's awful, and ignores the disproportionate burden of the war on Vietnam and it's people.
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And I don't know about historians, but I was blown away by "Memories of a Pure Spring," by Duong Thu Huong.
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