Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, 'A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.' (New York Times Book Review)

This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals