Vietnam

Vietnamese troops faced little resistence 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 an infamous massacre that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war, and asks what it means to America, almost forty years on.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.

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

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.

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