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<p>The Washington History Seminar discusses Christopher Goscha's history of the Vietnamese war for liberation against French colonialism. </p>

<p>The Washington History Seminar discusses Christopher Goscha's history of the Vietnamese war for liberation against French colonialism. </p>

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 struggle, a nation forged in the crucible of war had achieved a victory undreamed of by any other national liberation movement. The Road to Dien Bien Phu tells the story of how Ho Chi Minh turned a

"Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest, most readable single-volume history of Vietnam in English."-- Guardian In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese rule reshaped and modernized Vietnam, but so too did the colonial enterprises of the Vietnamese themselves as t...