Historians have written about the Vietnam War for more than half a century, but few have done so with access to the decision-making records of the United States’ main adversary, the government of North Vietnam. Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen, one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of the Vietnam War and author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, delves into the communist side of the war.
Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Besides Hanoi’s War, Dr. Nguyen is co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. She’s now writing a definitive history of the Tet Offensive, the communist attacks in 1968 that changed the course of the war for the United States.