Volume 5: Critical essays / edited by N. Chomsky and H. Zinn. Includes index to volumes 1-4. Vol. 5: Critical essays, edited by N. Chomsky and H. Zinn, and an index to v. 1-4.

VOL. 1: Introduction by U.S. Senator Mike Gravel -- Letter of Transmittal by Leslie H. Gelb -- 1. Background to the conflict, 1940-1950 -- 2. U.S. involvement in the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-1954 -- 3. The Geneva conference -- 4. U.S. and France in Indochina, 1950-1956 -- 5. Origins of the insurgency in South Vietnam, 1954-1960 -- VOL. 2: 1. The Kennedy commitments and programs, 1961 -- 2. The strategic hamlet program, 1961-1963 -- 3. Phased withdrawal of U.S. forces, 1962-1964 -- 4. The overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-November 1963 -- 5. US-GVN relations, 1964-1967 -- 6. The advisory build-up, 1961-1967 -- 7. Re-emphasis on pacification, 1965-1967 -- VOL. 3: 1. U.S. programs in South Vietnam, November 1963-April 1965 -- 2. Military pressures against North Vietnam, February 1964-January 1965 -- 3. The air war in North Vietnam: Rolling Thunder begins, February-June, 1965 -- 4. American troops enter the ground war, July 1965 -- VOL. 4: 1. The air war in North Vietnam, 1965-1968 -- 2. U.S. ground strategy and force deployments, 1965-1968. [At the end of each volume is a collection of documents, a section entitled "Justification of the War--Public Statements", and a glossary]. Vol. 5: Critical essays, edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and an index to v. 1-4.