The Second Indochina War: A Short Political and Military History, 19541975

This book emphasizes the Vietnamese dimensions of a conflict in which all of Indochina--Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia--was treated as a single strategic unit. It focuses on the experience, strategies, leadership, and internal politics of the revolutionary side.

William S. Turley, associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University, has been researching Vietnamese communism since 1970, including extensive work in Vietnam. He has spent time in Southeast Asia as a Ford Foundation Research Associate at Saigon University (1972-1973) and a Fulbright Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1982-1984); his numerous publications include Vietnamese Communism in Comparative Perspective (Westview 1980).