I. France loses Indochina. Solution in Indochina (March, 1954) -- The French communists and Indochina (April, 1955) -- The failure of the Navarre plan (December, 1956) -- Representative government in the State of Viet-Nam, 1949-54 (August, 1954) -- The cease-fire- an appraisal (September, 1954) -- Settlement at Geneva- then and now (May,1965) -- II. The north: two decades of revolution. The grass-roots rebellion (March,1954) -- Crisis in the North (January,1957) -- Inside Hanoi (November,1962) -- A contemporary profile (July, 1965) -- III. The South: stillborn experiment? Religion in politics (July, 1955) -- Danger signs (May, 1958) -- The birth of insurgency (July, 1958) -- The Montagnards (October, 1964) -- The agonizing reappraisal (February, 1965) -- The scars of division (July, 1964) -- IV. The unseen enemy. Communist military tactics (October, 1956) -- The Viet-Cong (April, 1965) -- The new communist army (September, 1965) -- V. The west at bay. The stakes in Southeast Asia (November, 1962) -- Full circle, 1954-64 (May, 1964) -- The roots of conflict (January, 1965) -- VI. The second Indochina war. The impersonal war (October, 1965) -- The statistics of war (July, 1965)-- The year of the Hawks (December, 1965) -- Old war, new war (March, 1966).