Deng Xiaoping's Long War. The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991.
United States: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 16 halftones, 5 maps, 296pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined..... More
