Christopher Goscha is professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The author and editor of numerous books on Southeast Asia and international relations in English and French, he lives in Montreal, Canada.
"[An] excellent book.... Goscha is rigorously objective; but he
does not shy away from analysis amid his historical fact
finding."--The VVA Veteran
"[A] thorough and thoughtful new history."--The Economist
"A splendid achievement. Christopher Goscha is one of our leading
historians of modern Vietnam, and he shows it in this nuanced,
fair-minded, deeply humane book. Destined to be a standard work on
the subject."--Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's
Vietnam
"A vigorous, eye-opening account of a country of great importance
to the world, past and future."--Kirkus Reviews
"A welcome new scholarly take on the story of a fascinating
country." --Washington Independent Review of Books
"For those who have wanted a distinct and comprehensive overview of
Vietnam's history, this is it. Christopher Goscha has an eye for
how history connects through generations and how a country can rise
from disasters in a new form, without losing sight of its
past."--Odd Arne Westad, author of Restless Empire: China and the
World Since 1750
"Groundbreaking... Goscha has provided quite simply the finest,
most readable single-volume history of Vietnam in
English."--Guardian
"Mr. Goscha is one of the most talented and prolific of a new group
of American and French historians who have examined the modern
history of Vietnam not in regard to the country's relationship to
the U.S. or the Cold War but on its own terms... [he] has put
together what will probably be for some time the best one-volume
history of modern Vietnam in English... for readers seeking a
concise, insightful and readable guide to the complexity and
variety of Vietnam's modern history, this book is an excellent
choice."--Wall Street Journal
"Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in
the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US
rethink their roles in Asia. Christopher Goscha's book is a
brilliant account of that country's history. Paying careful
attention to Vietnamese voices as well as those of colonizers, he
constructs a narrative that sets Vietnam in context, and makes it
for western readers so much more than a half-remembered event in
the Cold War."--Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China's
World War II, 1937-1945
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