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The Vietnam War Collection

Created 27 Mar 2024 | 10 articles

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in 2025, War & Society presents a collection of ten articles which highlight the many perspectives of a long and still controversial conflict. These articles cover military participation, civilian life, wartime relationships, the media, decolonisation, and the war’s long lasting legacy, including on the memory of more recent conflicts.

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Associate Professor Eleanor Hancock(History Department, HASS, University of UNSW, Canberra)

War & Society editor

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Blurred lines: the home front, the battlefront, and the wartime relationship between citizens and government in the Republic of Vietnam
Heather Marie Stur

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 38, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2019)

Published online: 21 Jan 2019
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Appeasing the Spirits Along the ‘Highway of Horror’: Civic Life in Wartime Republic of Vietnam
Van Nguyen-Marshall

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 37, Number: 3 (03 Jul 2018)

Published online: 06 May 2018
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Out of Balance: Evaluating American Strategy in Vietnam, 1968–72
Gregory A Daddis

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 32, Number: 3 (01 Oct 2013)

Published online: 03 Dec 2013
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A ‘Total War’ of Decolonization? Social Mobilization and State-Building in Communist Vietnam (1949–54)
Christopher Goscha

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 31, Number: 2 (01 Aug 2012) Bringing Asia into Focus: Civilians and Combatants in the Line of Fire in China and Indochina

Published online: 12 Nov 2013
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The (Transformative) Impacts of the Vietnam War and the Communist Revolution in a Border Region in Southeastern Laos
Vatthana Pholsena

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 31, Number: 2 (01 Aug 2012) Bringing Asia into Focus: Civilians and Combatants in the Line of Fire in China and Indochina

Published online: 12 Nov 2013
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‘It’s a different time. It’s a different era. It’s a different place’: the Legacy of Vietnam and Contemporary Memoirs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
David Kieran

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 31, Number: 1 (01 Mar 2012)

Published online: 12 Nov 2013
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The Domino Theory Revisited: The Southeast Asia Perspective
Ang Cheng Guan

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 19, Number: 1 (01 May 2001)

Published online: 19 Jul 2013
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Psychiatry and the ‘Lessons of Vietnam’: What Were They, and Are They Still Relevant?
Simon Wessely & Edgar Jones

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 22, Number: 1 (01 May 2004)

Published online: 19 Jul 2013
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Dien Bien Phu in Three Cultures
Dennis E. Showalter

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 16, Number: 2 (01 Oct 1998)

Published online: 19 Jul 2013
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Australian and American Media: From Korea to Vietnam
Lyn Gorman

Originally published in War & Society, Volume: 18, Number: 1 (01 May 2000)

Published online: 19 Jul 2013
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