Download Full eBooks in PDF
Vietnam An Epic History Of A Divisive War 1945 1975 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Vietnam An Epic History Of A Divisive War 1945 1975 book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008133009
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 : Max Hastings
Publisher : Harper
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0062405667
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners’ victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’ readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the twenty-first century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : United States
ISBN : 0008133018
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 : John Prados
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080895298
The first major synthesis of the war since 2001, drawing upon a host of newly declassified documents, presidential tapes, and overlooked foreign sources to give the most comprehensive look to date of the war that still haunts America.
Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439135266
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.
Author : Geoffrey Ward,Kenneth Burns
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : New-York Historical Society
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : United States
ISBN : 1907804773
A vividly illustrated book which offers a clear and engaging account of the full expanse of the Vietnam War--its causes, conduct, and consequences on the warfront and at home. Six short essays and nearly fifty chronological entries highlight the places, people, and key events and questions of the era.
Author : David Charlwood
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526744906
This historical study sheds new light on the partnership and rivalry between two of the UK’s most significant political leaders from WWII to the Cold War. For more than two decades, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden worked closely together. As Churchill’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Eden took over leadership of the nation when Churchill resigned from office. But while one is revered as a great leader and national icon, the other is remembered as the architect of Britain's worst foreign policy failure. Churchill and Eden tells the story of the relationship between two men who led Britain through war and peace. The narrative ranges from the sunny south of France to the deserts of Africa and the jungles of Vietnam, covering the eras of the Second World War, the decline of Britain's Empire and the coming of the Cold War. Historian David Charlwood offers a new perspective on the lives and decision-making of two of the most well-known political figures of the Twentieth Century.
Author : Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520927117
In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, Choosing War argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time. Why, then, did major war break out? Logevall shows it was partly because of the timidity of the key opponents of U.S. involvement, and partly because of the staunch opposition of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to early negotiations. His superlative account shows that U.S. officials chose war over disengagement despite deep doubts about the war's prospects and about Vietnam's importance to U.S. security and over the opposition of important voices in the Congress, in the press, and in the world community. They did so because of concerns about credibility—not so much America's or the Democratic party's credibility, but their own personal credibility. Based on six years of painstaking research, this book is the first to place American policymaking on Vietnam in 1963-65 in its wider international context using multiarchival sources, many of them recently declassified. Here we see for the first time how the war played in the key world capitals—not merely in Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi, but also in Paris and London, in Tokyo and Ottawa, in Moscow and Beijing. Choosing War is a powerful and devastating account of fear, favor, and hypocrisy at the highest echelons of American government, a book that will change forever our understanding of the tragedy that was the Vietnam War.
Author : Kevin Dougherty,Jason Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1592238602
This unique book chronologically examines the war as it unfolded, year-by-year, from French Colonial days and early U.S. involvement to the final days of war and its aftermath. Features archival color and black-and-white images throughout and an 8-page double-sided gatefold timeline profiling key events throughout the war in a unique graphic representation, with cut-out images and color keys under various themes and headings.
Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197519646
Gary Gerstle provides a sweeping re-interpretation of the entire era - from the revival of market liberalism in the 1970s to the ruin generated by the 2008 global financial crisis - that places America at the center.--
Author : Archimedes L. A. Patti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520041569
Author : Thi Duyen Phuong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819711963
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008280543
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.
Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241487181
The Vietnam War remains one of the most heroic and heartbreaking events in history. This definitive e-guide charts the unforgettable story of the world's first televised war. Hundreds of insightful images and a compelling narrative combine to chronicle this catastrophic conflict.?? From 1955, the communist government of North Vietnam waged war against South Vietnam and its main ally, the USA. Over the course of two decades of hostility and warfare, the number of casualties reached an incomprehensible three million people. Detailed descriptions of every episode, including Operation Passage to Freedom and the evacuation of the American embassy in Saigon, tell the stories in iconic photographs and eyewitness accounts. Discover the real people behind the conflict, with gripping biographies of key figures, including Henry Kissinger, General Thieu, President Nixon, and Pol Pot. This incredible visual record is supported by locator maps, at-a-glance timelines, archive photography, and key quotations to ensure an all-encompassing experience.?? The Vietnam War is an essential historic reference to help humanity learn the lessons of suffering and sacrifice from one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century.
