| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Why the North Won the Vietnam War. Ed. by Marc Jason Gilbert. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-312-29526-X. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-312-29527-8.)
While policy makers, former military men, and scholars all seem to agree that America made quite a few mistakes during the Vietnam War, there has been little discussion of what the Communists did right. The title of this book, Why the North Won the Vietnam War, would seem to be aimed at addressing precisely that, but it is really more of a discussion of what went wrong for the United States.	1
This is not entirely a bad thing, for Marc Jason Gilbert, the editor, and eight other distinguished experts on the war have succeeded in offering intriguing answers to the question: How could a superpower be defeated by a Third World state? Even almost thirty years after the fall of Saigon, there is no answer widely agreed upon.	. . .

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