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Message: [QUOTE="Zorro, post: 2353946, member: 158"] "The Fog of War", Errol Morris' documentary on the career of and interviews with the then-85 year old Robert McNamara is a very good accompaniment to the Burns series, as is another documentary called "The Winter Soldier", which consists of interviews with a number of soldiers and marines just back from Nam. I believe that both of these are available on line. The Vietnam chapter in Barbara Tuchman's fascinating book, "The March of Folly" is a good short analysis of the whole disastrous event. One comment; as far as "the North invading the South", it is important, I think, to keep in mind that there was not such entity as "South Viet Nam", until it was artificially created by the U.S. Although the U.S. was not a signee of the Geneva Accords, we did sign a protocol pledging to honor them. However, first under Eisenhower and increasingly under Kennedy, the U.S. undertook to sabotage the accords and finally refused to allow the country-wide election that was to have taken place on 1956, (and which all agree that Ho would have won in a landslide) instead holding an ersatz election in the South in which Diem, the erstwhile seminary student, was set up as the "elected President" of "South VietNam". [/QUOTE]