Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam Audiobook (Free)

While most historians of the Vietnam War concentrate on the origins of US involvement as well as the Americanization from the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the battle and American treatment finished. This riveting narrative takes the listener through the marshy Mekong Delta swamps to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from your corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon towards the Nixon White colored House, and in the peace negotiations in Paris to high- about Hanoi’s War: A GLOBAL History of the Battle for Peacefulness in Vietnam level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that serenity never had a chance in Vietnam.

Hanoi’s War renders transparent the inner workings of America’s most elusive foe during the Cool War and implies that the battle fought during the serenity negotiations was bloodier and much more far-reaching than believed before. Using never-before-seen archival components from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of warmaking and peacemaking not only in the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and america, presenting a exclusively international portrait.