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Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

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Richard Cavendish remembers the attempted coup against the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, in 1960.

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions.

Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of a massacre that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war.

Jessica Harrison-Hall introduces the upcoming exhibition of Vietnamese art at the British Museum.

Peter Riddick looks at the way oral history can add another perspective to our understanding of situations and events.

Ben Shephard examines the comparisons between American Vietnam veterans and Soviets who served in Afghanistan

Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct American intervention against Communism.

Glen Barclay considers how far Australian intervention in Vietnam marked a watershed in the country's willingness to send its troops abroad to fight for distant but powerful allies.

Lost illusions and gung-ho patriotism have both featured prominently in Hollywood’s reaction to the Vietnam War, but not to date some of the more unpleasant aspects of the conflict.

Ralph Smith assesses the material available on the conflict in South-East Asia.

'Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh' was the chant of radicals in the 1966s and 1970s, idolising the Communist leader who led Vietnam's Revolutionary struggle first against French colonialism and then against the United States' involvement in Vietnam. An article by Milton Osborne.

Vietnam's present-day expansionism in Indo-China is not a recent phenomenon but has roots in its pre-colonial past argues Milton Osborne.


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