Tragedy Of Vietnam

Author : Patrick J. Hearden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315510842

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Tragedy of Vietnam by Patrick J. Hearden Pdf

For courses on the Vietnam War, 20th century world history and American diplomatic history. Also appropriate as a supplemental text for U.S. history survey courses and history of Asia courses. Brief and accessible text that provides comprehensive coverage of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. The Tragedy of Vietnam provides extensive background on the Vietnam War, the relevant history of Southeast Asia and the consequences of the Vietnam conflict on the region. Author Patrick Hearden examines the key decisions and questions surroudning the tragic American entanglement in Vietnam, providing readers with a fascinating discussion of why the United States became involved in this war and why this involvement persisted for nearly a quarter of a century. This book covers the social, economic, ideological, diplomatic and military aspects of the Vietnam War.

Author : David E. Kaiser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674006720

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American Tragedy by David E. Kaiser Pdf

A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008133009

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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975 by Max Hastings Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year

Author : Van Nguyen Duong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0786483385

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The Tragedy of the Vietnam War by Van Nguyen Duong Pdf

What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country—but Vietnam’s strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries. Written by an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this poignant memoir seeks to clarify the nuances of South Vietnam’s defeat. From the age of 12, Van Nguyen Duong watched as the conflict affected his home, family, village and friends. He discusses not only the day-to-day hardships of wartime but his postwar forced relocation and eventual imprisonment. A special focus is on the anguish caused by the illusive reality of Vietnamese independence. The political forces at work north and south, the hardships suffered by RVNAF soldiers after the 1975 U.S. withdrawal, and the effects of reunification on the Vietnamese people are discussed.

Author : Ted Morgan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588369802

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Valley of Death by Ted Morgan Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement’s rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated. Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come. Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.

Author : Robert Mcnamara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525562603

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In Retrospect by Robert Mcnamara Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.

Author : Chris Noble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Armies
ISBN : 1419654632

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The Tragedy of Vietnam, Again by Chris Noble Pdf

Retold at a time when history eerily repeats itself, in The Tragedy of Vietnam, Again, Christopher Noble shares a pitch-perfect and prophetic memoir of his experience in Vietnam. As sincere as it is alarming, in a rush of intense action, the author provides a bold narrative in which to stake a claim that Americans must begin to question their president and the media to set the record straight once and for all. Critical until the bitter end, his is a dark and at times comic recollection of his twelve months serving in Vietnam as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Service Corps. With the certain air of bitter irony, Noble sees the cruel landscape repainted from the Far East to the canvas of the Middle East and is bold in his conclusion to compare the Vietnam War with the present day War in Iraq. He poignantly demonstrates how in both instances naïve and patriotic American youth head off to war for a government who misled the country and the American press who fuels half-truths and lies.

Author : Max Boot
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871409430

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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War. Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a “judicious and absorbing” (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.

Author : Lewis Sorley
Publisher : HMH
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547417455

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A Better War by Lewis Sorley Pdf

“A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post–Tet offensive years [from a] first-rate historian.” —The New York Times Book Review Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and—at least for a time—results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.

Author : Patrick J. Hearden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351674003

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The Tragedy of Vietnam by Patrick J. Hearden Pdf

The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conflict and examines its long-term consequences on a regional and global scale. This fifth edition includes expanded discussions of postwar American–Vietnamese relationships and outlines the ways in which the Vietnam War experience has shaped foreign-policy debates in the United States up until the present day.

Author : Patrick J. Hearden
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indochina
ISBN : UCSC:32106017747384

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The Tragedy of Vietnam by Patrick J. Hearden Pdf

Provides the social, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War.

Author : Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Platform Books, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 173599684X

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In That Time by Daniel H. Weiss Pdf

Through the story of the brief, brave life of a promising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era. In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O'Donnell, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O'Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force, and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire, O'Donnell's helicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. Although he never fired a shot in Vietnam, O'Donnell served in one of the most dangerous roles of the war, all the while using poetry to express his inner feelings and to reflect on the tragedy that was unfolding around him. O'Donnell's life is both a powerful, personal story and a compelling, universal one about how America lost its way in the 1960s, but also how hope can flower in the margins of even the darkest chapters of the American story.

Author : William Thomas Allison
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421406442

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My Lai by William Thomas Allison Pdf

Allison tells the story of a terrible moment in American history and explores how to deal with the aftermath. On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should be held accountable? How do we remember this atrocity and try to apply its lessons, if any? My Lai has fixed the attention of Americans of various political stripes for more than forty years. The breadth of writing on the massacre, from news reports to scholarly accounts, highlights the difficulty of establishing fact and motive in an incident during which confusion, prejudice, and self-preservation overwhelmed the troops. Son of a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War—and aware that the generation who lived through the incident is aging—Allison seeks to ensure that our collective memory of this shameful episode does not fade. Well written and accessible, Allison’s book provides a clear narrative of this historic moment and offers suggestions for how to come to terms with its aftermath.

Author : Robert S. McNamara,James G. Blight,Robert Kendall Brigham,Thomas J. Biersteker
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1891620878

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Argument Without End by Robert S. McNamara,James G. Blight,Robert Kendall Brigham,Thomas J. Biersteker Pdf

The former Secretary of Defense, and leading scholars from the U.S. and Vietnam, offer a groundbreaking new study of exactly how the Vietnam War happened-- and why it could not be stopped before three million people died.

Author : Joseph Buttinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:10552016

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Vietnam by Joseph Buttinger Pdf