Abstract
Hanoi's War is the book for which historians of the American war in Vietnam have been waiting: the first comprehensive study drawn from Vietnamese archival and published sources that provides a critical examination of North Vietnam's strategic decisions. There is no other work like it in English, Vietnamese, or any other language. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen has made a pathbreaking contribution to historical understanding of the war. The author takes a balanced position that “there were no clear winners, only leaders who were willing to go to war over their contested visions for the future of Vietnam” (p. 11). She readily acknowledges that the book is not a definitive study of America's enemy because key party and government records remain closed to scholars. As an international history, however, Nguyen's work gives agency, to use the popular term, to Hanoi and Saigon as well as Moscow and Beijing in the causes and outcomes of the conflict. It complements the detailed studies of U.S. agency that the accessibility of American records has made possible.
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