| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives. Ed. by Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 371 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-81048-5. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-521-00876-X.)

In the Army Museum of Hanoi, along with the extensive exhibits commemorating Vietnam's French and "American" wars, there is an entire wing devoted to the "internationalization" of the American war. In this the Vietnamese authorities display numerous photographs and other memorabilia of the peace movements in many countries around the world, commemorating how Vietnam's "struggle" became the cause of millions. Even discounting its heavy propaganda, the exhibit does capture the degree to which the Vietnam War, a continuing obsession for Americans, deserves to be considered in a broad international context. This volume, part of the ongoing and distinguished series of the German Historical Institute, originated from a Washington conference in November 1998 and includes sixteen original essays from a mix of younger and older European and American scholars. The editors recognize, as they put it, "Vietnam was undoubtedly America's war, but at the same time the struggle for Vietnam had a deep impact on many other areas of the world and on the domestic settings of many noncombatants" (p. 3). The result of their efforts is a challenging book that raises more questions than it provides answers, but it should set an agenda for continuing research into this conflict.

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