Nationalist In The Viet Nam Wars

Author : Công Luận Nguyẽ̂n
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253356871

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Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars by Công Luận Nguyẽ̂n Pdf

This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong Luan was born and raised in small villages near Ha Noi. He grew up knowing war at the hands of the Japanese, the French, and the Viet Minh. Living with wars of conquest, colonialism, and revolution led him finally to move south and take up the cause of the Republic of Viet Nam, exchanging a life of victimhood for one of a soldier. His stories of village life in the north are every bit as compelling as his stories of combat and the tragedies of war. This honest and impassioned account is filled with the everyday heroism of the common people of his generation.

Author : William Duiker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015027312530

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Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution In A Divided Vietnam by William Duiker Pdf

Discusses the origins, the conduct and the social impact of the war in Vietnam from the Vietnamese perspective.

Author : A. Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317872276

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The Origins of the Vietnam War by A. Short Pdf

This study examines the origins of the Vietnam War itself, going back to the nature of French colonial rule in the early 20th century. It investigates the original conflict between France, as well as the United States, and the forces of Vietnamese nationalism and communism. It argues that it was probably a mistake for the United States to internationalize the war in 1954 and it discusses the American commitment to the war, directed as much against China as against North Vietnam and the ideological hostility to communism.

Author : Mark Philip Bradley,Marilyn B. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0198043023

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Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars by Mark Philip Bradley,Marilyn B. Young Pdf

Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon, to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars.

Author : T. Louise Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000504712

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War and Aftermath in Vietnam by T. Louise Brown Pdf

This book, first published in 1991, attempts to combine a broad understanding of the background to the conflict in Vietnamese and world history with detailed material on US military tactics and the failure of pacification. There are chapters on the US presidential administrations of Johnson, Kennedy and Nixon; religion, culture and society in North and South Vietnam, and the nature of the ‘People's Revolutionary War’.

Author : Louise Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134981014

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War & Aftermath In Vietnam by Louise Brown Pdf

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nu-Anh Tran
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824891633

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Disunion by Nu-Anh Tran Pdf

Since the 1950s, the domestic politics of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) has puzzled outside observers. To these external analysts, the American-backed regime seemed to be plagued by instability and factionalism for no apparent reason. Their bewilderment, however, has obscured a deep and complex history. In Disunion, Nu-Anh Tran shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War. The book traces the emergence of Vietnam’s anticommunist nationalists back to the struggle for independence and explores how their alliances were tested and then broken during the rule of the RVN’s first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. The anticommunists rejected the authoritarianism and ideology of the Vietnamese communists and dreamed of building an independent, democratic government that would unite the Vietnamese nation. The RVN was supposed to be the fulfillment of this long-cherished vision. But discord soon erupted among the anticommunists. Politicians fiercely debated to what extent the government should be democratic and which groups had a legitimate place in political life. The unresolved disagreements provoked intense and continuous infighting that troubled the RVN throughout the regime’s existence. Ultimately, the animosity undermined any possibility of realizing the anticommunists’ shared vision for the country. Based on previously neglected primary sources and extensive research in Vietnamese and American archives, Disunion paints a rich and sensitive portrayal of leaders and activists in the RVN. Anticommunist nationalists were deeply devoted to their homeland and inspired by forward-looking visions, but they were also hobbled by their failure to live up to their lofty ideals. By examining these historical figures on their own terms, the book offers a fresh perspective on the political history of South Vietnam that has remained misunderstood to this day.

Author : Kevin Ruane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0719054907

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The Vietnam Wars by Kevin Ruane Pdf

The main premise The Vietnam Wars is that Vietnam experienced not one but several over-lapping and often inter-dependent wars. This lively new source book chronicles the history of one of the bloodiest and most controversial conflicts of the twentieth century, beginning with the birth of the Vietnamese communist party in 1930 and ending with the triumph of the Vietnamese revolution in 1975. Through a series of short essays, but most especially through the documents themselves, the book illustrates and illuminates both the conflict and the main historical debates about its origins, course and consequences.

Author : Louise Brown, Dir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134981021

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War & Aftermath In Vietnam by Louise Brown, Dir Pdf

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carlyle A. Thayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000504675

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War By Other Means by Carlyle A. Thayer Pdf

This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960. This study challenges long-held views about the origins and nature of the Viet Cong. It carefully examines the various stages in the struggle for ‘national liberation’ during this period, reviews the consequences of the failure of purely political means to achieve reunification and then focuses on the struggle between the Diem regime and the Communists.

Author : Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882558

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The Origins of the Vietnam War by Fredrik Logevall Pdf

Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full-scale war in 1965, and places events against their full international background.

Author : Mark Atwood Lawrence,Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0674023714

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The First Vietnam War by Mark Atwood Lawrence,Fredrik Logevall Pdf

How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? To understand the course of the Vietnam wars, it is essential to explore the connections between events within Vietnam and global geopolitical currents in the decade after the Second World War. In this illuminating work, leading scholars examine various dimensions of the struggle between France and Vietnamese revolutionaries that began in 1945 and reached its climax at Dien Bien Phu. Several essays break new ground in the study of the Vietnamese revolution and the establishment of the political and military apparatus that successfully challenged both France and the United States. Other essays explore the roles of China, France, Great Britain, and the United States, all of which contributed to the transformation of the conflict from a colonial skirmish to a Cold War crisis. Taken together, the essays enable us to understand the origins of the later American war in Indochina by positioning Vietnam at the center of the grand clash between East and West and North and South in the middle years of the twentieth century.

Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814794678

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Vietnam's Forgotten Army by Andrew Wiest Pdf

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Author : Ken Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Vietnam
ISBN : 1855210975

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Revolution, Socialism, and Nationalism in Viet Nam by Ken Post Pdf

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439135266

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Vietnam by Michael Lind Pdf

Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller. In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context—as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war. In an era when the United States so often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.