Books with title Meals in Vietnam

Americans fought and died in Vietnam in a war few understood and many protested. The roots of the war actually go back to thousands of years before America joined the battle, and it is necessary to look at these roots to gain insight into what happened later.Two thousand years ago China invaded Vietnam for the first time. For centuries the Chinese and the Vietnamese fought over who would control the land. During the brief periods of freedom from the Chinese, the Vietnamese often fought among themselves to see who would rule that pan of Indochina.When the Vietnamese were finally free of Chinese rule and had some peace among themselves, the French arrived to rule the nation as a colony for most of a century. During World War II, the Japanese took over from the French for four years. At France's return at the end of the war, a pan of the Vietnamese people renewed the struggle to free themselves from foreign rulers. The French-Vietnamese War ended in 1954 with a divided nation.At this time, the United States became more and more involved in the struggle, until Americans discovered their country was deep in a war they did not want. Ten painful years passed before the American phase of this long war ended.This is the story of the two-thousand year war in Vietnam. For only by looking deep into this past can we gain a better understanding of what happened to the Vietnamese, to the French and to Americans who lived and died in Vietnam.