The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and VietnamDommen's book promises to be the definitive political history of Indochina during the Franco American era. William M. Leary, E. Merton Coulter Professor of History, University of Georgia This magisterial study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars 'French and American' in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China in 930 39 through the first French