First independent Vietnamese dynasty after a millennium of Chinese rule, founded by Ngô Quyền after his 938 victory over Southern Han at the Battle of Bạch Đằng River.
Fragmented into the chaos of the "Twelve Warlords" period after the last Ngô ruler's death; reunified in 968 by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, who founded the Đinh dynasty and the state of Đại Cồ Việt.
No dedicated English monograph on the Ngô dynasty alone exists on Open Library; this is the standard scholarly history of exactly this independence era, covering Bạch Đằng and Ngô Quyền in detail.