"Victory in Vietnam is the People's Army of Vietnam's own account of two decades of struggle, now available for the first time in English. It is a definitive statement of the Vietnamese point of view concerning foreign intrusion in their country since before American involvement - and it reveals that many of the accepted truths in our own histories of the war are simply wrong."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the Vietnamese.

pt. 1. Building the People's army into a regular, modern armed force: maintaining and developing revolutionary armed forces in the South, 1954-1960 -- pt. 2. Intensifying the work of building a modern, regular army, expanding our massed forces in South Vietnam, and defeating the "special warfare" strategy of the American imperialists, 1961-1965 -- pt. 3. The People's army of Vietnam simultaneously fights and conducts force building and, together with the entire population, defeats the "limited warfare" strategy of the American imperialists, 1965-1968 -- pt. 4. The People's army of Vietnam launches large-scale combined-arms operations and, together with the entire population, partially defeats the U.S. imperialists' strategy to "vietnamize" the war, 1969-1972 -- pt. 5. The formation of strategic army corps: the entire nation urgently prepares and launches the spring 1975 general offensive and uprising, bringing the resistance war against the United States to save the nation to a victorious conclusion, 1973-1975.