Vietnam 365

Author : Ronald J. Glasser
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453290392

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365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an army doctor—“a book of great emotional impact” (The New York Times). In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Dr. Ronald Glasser was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital at Camp Zama. It was the only general army hospital in Japan, and though Glasser was initially charged with tending to the children of officers and government officials, he was soon caught up in the waves of casualties that poured in from every Vietnam front. Thousands of soldiers arrived each month, demanding the help of every physician within reach. In 365 Days, Glasser reveals a candid and shocking account of that harrowing experience. He gives voice to seventeen of his patients, wounded men counting down the days until they return home. Their stories bring to life a world of incredible bravery and suffering, one where “the young are suddenly left alone to take care of the young.” An instant classic of war literature, 365 Days is a remarkable, ground-level account of Vietnam’s human toll.

Author : Martin Zatko,Ron Emmons
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409359371

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The Rough Guide to Vietnam by Martin Zatko,Ron Emmons Pdf

The Rough Guide to Vietnam is the essential guide to one of Southeast Asia's most enticing destinations. Roam the markets, temples and shops of thousand-year-old Hanoi, and then slow the pace down with a trip to national parks or the remote highlands. From the rugged mountains of Ha Giang in the north to the pancake-flat Mekong Delta in the south, the Rough Guide's honest and up-to-date appraisals will steer you to the best places to stay, eat and party across every price range. Reviews take in hill-tribe homestays, quirky hostels, boutique hotels, sophisticated restaurants and delicious street food, while informed and accessible writing covers everything from Buddhism to battlefields. This fully revised edition is full-colour throughout, helping the country's tremendous food, impressive colonial architecture and colourful ethnic minorities leap from the page, and detailed maps offer clear guidance.

Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231509329

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The Columbia History of the Vietnam War by David L. Anderson Pdf

Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam. Laying the chronological and critical foundations for the volume, David L. Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam War's major moments and enduring relevance. Mark Philip Bradley follows with a reexamination of Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the Vietminh-led war against French colonialism. Richard H. Immerman revisits Eisenhower's and Kennedy's efforts at nation building in South Vietnam, and Gary R. Hess reviews America's military commitment under Kennedy and Johnson. Lloyd C. Gardner investigates the motivations behind Johnson's escalation of force, and Robert J. McMahon focuses on the pivotal period before and after the Tet Offensive. Jeffrey P. Kimball then makes sense of Nixon's paradoxical decision to end U.S. intervention while pursuing a destructive air war. John Prados and Eric Bergerud devote essays to America's military strategy, while Helen E. Anderson and Robert K. Brigham explore the war's impact on Vietnamese women and urban culture. Melvin Small recounts the domestic tensions created by America's involvement in Vietnam, and Kenton Clymer traces the spread of the war to Laos and Cambodia. Concluding essays by Robert D. Schulzinger and George C. Herring account for the legacy of the war within Vietnamese and American contexts and diagnose the symptoms of the "Vietnam syndrome" evident in later debates about U.S. foreign policy. America's experience in Vietnam continues to figure prominently in discussions about strategy and defense, not to mention within discourse on the identity of the United States as a nation. Anderson's expert collection is therefore essential to understanding America's entanglement in the Vietnam War and the conflict's influence on the nation's future interests abroad.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : United States
ISBN : UCLA:L0077647477

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.

Author : Frank Jolliff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 0899901522

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365 and a Wake-up by Frank Jolliff Pdf

365 and a Wake-Up: My Year in Vietnam is a front, row, day-by-day chronicle as seen through the eyes of a common infantryman. The author, a twenty-year-old combat medic during his tour of duty, tells his story with all the trepidation of a typical draftee. This book is a chronicle of his experiences with a platoon of grunts as they hump through the mire of rice paddies, the jungles peppered with Agent Orange, and the booby-trapped hootches of the seemingly friendly villages. The story describes vividly the mixed bag of soldiers whose main agenda is not only to kill the Viet Cong but to simply make it through each of the 365 days and be given their wake-up. Book jacket.

Author : A. J. Langguth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743212441

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Our Vietnam by A. J. Langguth Pdf

Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.

Author : Graham A. Cosmas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UOM:39015090298947

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960-1968: 1960-1968 by Graham A. Cosmas Pdf

Author : Jack Shulimson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : OSU:32435082598046

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960-1968: 1960-1963 by Jack Shulimson Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89012592093

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Vietnam by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Subversive activities
ISBN : UCLA:31158011993168

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New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119573744

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New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Hearings Before ... by United States. Congress. House Internal Security Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781618585608

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USMC Vietnam Helicopter Pilots and Aircrew History, 2nd Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Capture the esprit de corps of the Marines in action during the Vietnam War. A documentation of the men, the crews, and the machines that flew the wartorn skies of Southeast Asia. Hundreds of dynamic photographs, maps, roster of Association members, and nearly 400 biographies with before-and-after photos of Marines make USMC-Vietnam Helicopter Association: Pop a Smoke a treasure chest of memories and history.

Author : Brenda M. Boyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472510778

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The Vietnam War by Brenda M. Boyle Pdf

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed interest in the Vietnam War, resulting in the re-printing of older War narratives and the publication of new ones. This volume tracks those echoes as they appear in American, Vietnamese American, and Vietnamese war literature, much of which has joined the American literary canon. Using a wide range of theoretical approaches, these essays analyze works by Michael Herr, Bao Ninh, Duong Thu Huong, Bobbie Ann Mason, le thi diem thuy, Tim O'Brien, Larry Heinemann, and newcomers Denis Johnson, Karl Marlantes, and Tatjana Solis. Including an historical timeline of the conflict and annotated guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American fiction

Author : Joseph A. Fry
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813161099

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The American South and the Vietnam War by Joseph A. Fry Pdf

To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Georgia oversaw the dramatic escalation of U.S. military involvement from 1965 through 1968. General William Westmoreland, born and raised in South Carolina, commanded U.S. forces during most of the Johnson presidency. Widely supported by their constituents, southern legislators collectively provided the most dependable support for war funding and unwavering opposition to measures designed to hasten U.S. withdrawal from the conflict. In addition, southerners served, died, and were awarded the Medal of Honor in numbers significantly disproportionate to their states' populations. In The American South and the Vietnam War, Joseph A. Fry demonstrates how Dixie's majority pro-war stance derived from a host of distinctly regional values, perspectives, and interests. He also considers the views of the dissenters, from student protesters to legislators such as J. William Fulbright, Albert Gore Sr., and John Sherman Cooper, who worked in the corridors of power to end the conflict, and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Julian Bond, who were among the nation's most outspoken critics of the war. Fry's innovative and masterful study draws on policy analysis and polling data as well as oral histories, transcripts, and letters to illuminate not only the South's influence on foreign relations, but also the personal costs of war on the home front.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : UCAL:B5148839

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Situation in Vietnam by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf