The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis - Paperbackby Mark Atwood Lawrence (Editor), Fredrik Logevall (Editor) How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? To understand the course of the Vietnam wars, it is essential to explore the connections between events within Vietnam and global geopolitical currents in the decade after the Second World War. In this illuminating work, leading