Black April: The fall of South Vietnam 1973-1975

摘要

The defining themes of politics in Southeast Asia after the Second World War were decolonisation and state building, especially efforts to construct the postcolonial state. These experiences were frequently violent: the Indonesian Revolution, the Malayan Emergency, Indonesian Confrontation, internal upheavals in the Philippines. But all states constructed in the region during this turbulent era survived, in one form or another, into our own time. Except one: the Republic of Vietnam (ROV), better known to the wider world as South Vietnam.