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Author : Thomas C Thayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000008869
This book is a unique source of information about U.S. troop involvement in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1972. It stresses that Vietnam was a war without fronts or battle lines—a war different from any that the United States had previously fought.
Author : Clark Dougan,Stephen Weiss,Boston Publishing Company
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Vietnam
ISBN : 0393025985
For more than seven years a team of researchers, editors, and writers compiled the 25-volume source history of the Vietnam War. From that material they have produced the definitive, large-scale, single-volume account of America's most traumatic experience since the Civil War. Photos.
Author : Grace Sevy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806123907
Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over the war
Author : Clark Dougan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5552186699
For more than seven years a team of researchers, editors, and writers compiled the 25-volume source history of the Vietnam War. From that material they have produced the definitive, large-scale, single-volume account of America's most traumatic experience since the Civil War. Photos.
Author : The Editors of Boston Publishing Company
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627884976
The landmark, Pulitzer Prize–nominated, bestselling illustrated history, updated for the fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War. When it was originally published, the twenty-five-volume Vietnam Experience offered the definitive historical perspectives of the Vietnam War from some of the best rising authors on the conflict. This new and reimagined edition updates the war on the fifty years that have passed since the war’s initiation. The official successor to the Pulitzer Prize–nominated set, The American Experience in Vietnam combines the best serious historical writing about the Vietnam War with new, never-before-published photos and perspectives. New content includes social, cultural, and military analysis; a view of post-1980s Vietnam; and contextualizing discussion of US involvement in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Even if you own the original, The American Experience in Vietnam is a necessary addition for any modern Vietnam War enthusiast. Praise for The American Experience in Vietnam “The heart of the book is a well-written, objectively presented history of the war that includes a lot of military history.” —Vietnam Veterans of America
Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743262552
David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth—issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together the stories of three very different worlds: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students back home, and the confusion and obfuscating behavior of officials in Washington. To understand what happens to the people in these interconnected stories is to understand America's anguish. Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the book describes the battles that evoked cultural and political conflicts that still reverberate.
Author : Geoffrey Ward,Kenneth Burns
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984897749
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict, “a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come.” —The Washington Post More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women—those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, both victims and victors—willing for the first time to share their memories of Vietnam as it really was. A magisterial tour de force, The Vietnam War is an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict.
Author : Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780425291788
★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. The history of this era is complex; the cultural impact extraordinary. But it's the personal stories of eight people—six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee—that create the heartbeat of Boots on the Ground. From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic helicopter rescues and harrowing escapes, each individual experience reveals a different facet of the war and moves us forward in time. Alternating with these chapters are profiles of key American leaders and events, reminding us of all that was happening at home during the war, including peace protests, presidential scandals, and veterans' struggles to acclimate to life after Vietnam. With more than one hundred photographs, award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge's unflinching book captures the intensity, frustration, and lasting impacts of one of the most tumultuous periods of American history. *Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Marching for Freedom
Author : Meredith H. Lair
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834817
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war
Author : William David Thomas
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836857755
Describes public opinion and life in the United States during the Vietnam War.
Author : Philip D. Beidler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820330242
A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.
Author : Joyce Hoffmann
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786721665
Over three hundred women, both print and broadcast journalists, were accredited to chronicle America's activities in Vietnam. Many of those women won esteemed prizes for their reporting, including the Pulitzer, the Overseas Press Club Award, the George Polk Award, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize for History. Tragically, several lost their lives covering the war, while others were wounded or taken prisoner. In this gripping narrative, veteran journalist Joyce Hoffmann tells the important yet largely unknown story of a central group of these female journalists, including Dickey Chapelle, Gloria Emerson, Kate Webb, and others. Each has a unique and deeply compelling tale to tell, and vivid portraits of their personal lives and professional triumphs are woven into the controversial details of America's twenty-year entanglement in Southeast Asia.
Author : James E. Westheider
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0742545326
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Yet as the war in Vietnam progressed, many black recruits felt isolated and threatened in an institution controlled almost totally by whites. Consequently, many blacks no longer viewed the military as a professional opportunity, but an undue burden on the black community.
Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860113
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe
Author : Neil L. Jamieson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520916586
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the Vietnamese clung to and fought over their own competing visions of what Vietnam was and what it might become. To understand the war, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture, and their ways of looking at the world. Neil L. Jamieson, after many years of living and working in Vietnam, has written the book that provides this understanding. Jamieson paints a portrait of twentieth-century Vietnam. Against the background of traditional Vietnamese culture, he takes us through the saga of modern Vietnamese history and Western involvement in the country, from the coming of the French in 1858 through the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout his analysis, he allows the Vietnamese—both our friends and foes, and those who wished to be neither—to speak for themselves through poetry, fiction, essays, newspaper editorials and reports of interviews and personal experiences. By putting our old and partial perceptions into this new and broader context, Jamieson provides positive insights that may perhaps ease the lingering pain and doubt resulting from our involvement in Vietnam. As the United States and Vietnam appear poised to embark on a new phase in their relationship, Jamieson's book is particularly timely.