Ho Chi Minh : the untried gamble / Robert Shaplen --
The United States, its allies, and the Bao Dai experiment / Mark Atwood Lawrence --
Dwight D. Eisenhower and wholehearted support of Ngo Dinh Diem / David L. Anderson --
Geneva, 1954 : the precarious peace / Ellen J. Hammer --
The CIA comes to Vietnam / Edward Geary Lansdale --
No "non-essential areas" : Kennedy and Vietnam / Herbert S. Parmet --
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution / Robert S. McNamara --
Lyndon Johnson chooses war / Fredrik Logevall --
The Tet Offensive, 1968 / George C. Herring --
A dissenter in the government / George W. Ball --
Nixon, Kissinger, and a pax Americana / Jeffrey Kimball --
Bombing Hanoi, mining Haiphong, and the Moscow Summit / Stephen E. Ambrose --
Stabbed in the back / William Colby --
Ngo Dinh Diem, the impossible ally / Seth Jacobs --
Ngo Dinh Diem, modernizer / Philip E. Catton --
The foreign policy of North Vietnam / William J. Duiker --
The National Liberation Front and the land / Tom Mangold and John Penycate --
Getting hit / Philip Caputo --
Feeling cold / Wallace Terry --
Nursing and disillusionment / Lynda Van Devanter --
"They did not know good from evil" / Tim O'Brien --
My Lai : the killing begins / Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim --
The Soviet Union and American escalation / Ilya V. Gaiduk --
China and the American escalation / Qiang Zhai --
The Vietnamese and global revolutions / Odd Arne Westag --
The war in Laos / Timothy N. Castle --
Bombing Cambodia : a critique / William Shawcross --
Bombing Cambodia : a defense / Henry A. Kissinger --
A clash of cultures / Frances FitzGerald --
An opportunity for power / Gareth Porter --
A defense of freedom / Norman Podhoretz --
An act of imperialism / Noah Chomsky --
An assertion of manhood / Robert D. Dean --
Working-class war / Christian G. Appy --
Seeds of a movement / Tom Wells --
Women at the barricades, then and now / Myra MacPherson --
Saigon : the end and the beginning / Duong Van Mai Elliott --
Homecoming USA / Arnold Isaacs --
Amerasians : a people in between / Thomas A. Bass --
Letting go / Le Ly Hayslip.
