Webster S New World Dictionary Of The Vietnam War

Author : Marc Leepson,Helen Hannaford
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCSC:32106015571208

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Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War by Marc Leepson,Helen Hannaford Pdf

Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War is the perfect desktop reference for students, veterans, and other interested readers who want the critical facts about the Vietnam War. Hundreds of clear, concise entries on the people, places, equipment, and events provide readers with a solid foundation on this controversial period in U.S. history. Resources include a handy chronological chart, historically important documents such as the Paris Peace Accords and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a complete list of Medal of Honor recipients, and the Orders of Battle for the U.S., North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese forces. A detailed bibliography guides readers to respected texts on Vietnam War - related topics such as, Vietnam, the Indochina War, Dien Bien Phu, strategies, and tactics.

Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313249433

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Dictionary of the Vietnam War by James S. Olson Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information on people, legislation, military operations, and controversies related to American participation in the Vietnam War, focusing on the years between 1945 and 1975; each with references and cross-references.

Author : Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin,Kenneth R. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136819636

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New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia by Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin,Kenneth R. Hall Pdf

Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "classical" age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely, giving "agency" to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation. The book honours John K. Whitmore, a senior historian in the field of Southeast Asian history today, by demonstrating the scope and breadth of the scholar’s influence on two generations of historians trained in the West. In addition to providing new information and insights on the field of Southeast Asia, this book stimulates new debate on conventional ideas, evidence, and approaches to its teaching, research, and understanding. It addresses, and in many cases, revises specific, critically important topics in Southeast Asian history on which much conventional knowledge of Southeast Asia has long been based. It is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as Asian History.

Author : Webster's New World Dictionary,Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0618396012

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Webster's II New College Dictionary by Webster's New World Dictionary,Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries Pdf

A newly updated edition of the dictionary features more than 200,000 definitions, as well as revised charts and tables, proofreaders' marks, synonym lists, word histories, and context examples.

Author : Ha Mai Viet
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514338

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Steel and Blood by Ha Mai Viet Pdf

When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.

Author : James H. Willbanks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626365285

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Vietnam War Almanac by James H. Willbanks Pdf

With more than 58,000 casualties and 300,000 wounded, at a cost of more than $130 billion, the Vietnam War became one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. The scars left by the war can still be felt today, making it crucial that we have the facts about this watershed event. Vietnam War Almanac contains a chronological history of the war in Vietnam, with day-by-day listings of the war on the ground, in the air, and at sea; international and U.S. events; and a biographical dictionary of major military and civilian figures. It may be impossible to fully understand such a complicated and horrible struggle, but for the families of veterans and for historians, the thorough presentation here, along with its extensive bibliography and index, is an excellent place to start. Coverage here includes: • The Tet Offensive • Walter L. Cronkite • The Battle of Dien Bien Phu • Vo Nguyen Giap • Ngo Dinh Diem • The Battle of Ia Drang Valley • Robert S. McNamara • The Battle of Hamburger Hill • Abbie Hoffman • The Battle of An Loc • And much more President Nixon claimed that the war was “misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” This almanac will ensure that it is remembered correctly.

Author : Ron Milam
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898642

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Not a Gentleman's War by Ron Milam Pdf

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's War is about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer. Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer in Vietnam was a no-talent, poorly trained, unmotivated soldier typified by Lt. William Calley of My Lai infamy. Drawing on oral histories, after-action reports, diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Ron Milam debunks this view, demonstrating that most of the lieutenants who served in combat performed their duties well and effectively, serving with great skill, dedication, and commitment to the men they led. Milam's narrative provides a vivid, on-the-ground portrait of what the platoon leader faced: training his men, keeping racial tensions at bay, and preventing alcohol and drug abuse, all in a war without fronts. Yet despite these obstacles, junior officers performed admirably, as documented by field reports and evaluations of their superior officers. More than 5,000 junior officers died in Vietnam; all of them had volunteered to lead men in battle. Based on meticulous and wide-ranging research, this book provides a much-needed serious treatment of these men--the only such study in print--shedding new light on the longest war in American history.

Author : Ivan Arreguín-Toft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316583005

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How the Weak Win Wars by Ivan Arreguín-Toft Pdf

How do the weak win wars? The likelihood of victory and defeat in asymmetric conflicts depends on the interaction of the strategies weak and strong actors use. Using statistical and in-depth historical analyses of conflicts spanning two hundred years, in this 2005 book Ivan Arregúin-Toft shows that, independent of regime type and weapons technology, the interaction of similar strategic approaches favors strong actors, while opposite strategic approaches favors the weak. This approach to understanding asymmetric conflicts allows us to makes sense of how the United States was able to win its war in Afghanistan (2002) in a few months, while the Soviet Union lost after a decade of brutal war (1979–89). Arreguín-Toft's strategic interaction theory has implications not only for international relations theory, but for policy makers grappling with interstate and civil wars, as well as terrorism.

Author : Jim Carmichael
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781489741479

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Vietnam, My Deliverance; Traumatic Stress, My Salvation by Jim Carmichael Pdf

Post-traumatic stress disorder is both a gift and tool in God’s hands. The Lord has designed a person’s brain to adjust to the rigors of combat or abuse. Combat’s despair can also drive us to Christ. Jim Carmichael, Ph.D. looks back at his service in Vietnam and how it impacted his life upon returning home in this book. More importantly, he reveals how God led him to find redemption, obedience to God, and transformation into the image of Jesus Christ through suffering. In sharing his story, the author seeks to answer questions such as: · What is the purpose of PTSD? · Why don’t all combatants suffer from PTSD? · How can God deliver individuals from bondage? · What can be done to prevent PTSD victims from dying by suicide? The author stresses that the Veterans Administration should do more to teach veterans and their families about how the brain changes when it’s subjected to constant stress. He also highlights how combatants throughout history have been impacted by stress. Join the author as he praises and thanks God for using the horrors of Vietnam to drive him to Christ.

Author : Edwin Moïse
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700625024

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The Myths of Tet by Edwin Moïse Pdf

Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said that the war was being won, and that Communist strength in South Vietnam was declining. Then came the Tet Offensive of 1968. In its broadest and simplest outline, the conventional wisdom about the offensive—that it was a military defeat for the Communists but a political victory for them, because it undermined support for the war in the United States—is correct. But much that has been written about the Tet Offensive has been misleading. Edwin Moïse shows that the Communist campaign shocked the American public not because the American media exaggerated its success, but because it was a bigger campaign—larger in scale, much longer in duration, and resulting in more American casualties—than most authors have acknowledged. MACV, led by General William Westmoreland, issued regular estimates of enemy strength in South Vietnam. During 1967, intelligence officers at MACV were increasingly required to issue low estimates to show that the war was being won. Their underestimation of enemy strength was most extreme in January 1968, just before the Tet Offensive. The weak Communist force depicted in MACV estimates would not have been capable of sustaining heavy combat month after month like they did in 1968. Moïse also explores the errors of the Communists, using Vietnamese sources. The first wave of Communist attacks, at the end of January 1968, showed gross failures of coordination. Communist policy throughout 1968 and into 1969 was wildly overoptimistic, setting impossible goals for their forces. While acknowledging the journalists and historians who have correctly reported various parts of the story, Moïse points out widespread misunderstandings in regard to the strength of Communist forces in Vietnam, the disputes among American intelligence agencies over estimates of enemy strength, the actual pattern of combat in 1968, the effects of Tet on American policy, and the American media’s coverage of all these issues.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEZZ9

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An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : WISC:89097008551

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Supplement to Vietnam 1964-1973 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112087196041

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Special Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernd Greiner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409078920

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War Without Fronts by Bernd Greiner Pdf

Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai. By noon more than 400 women, children and old men had been systematically murdered. To this day, the My Lai massacre has remained the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War. Yet this infamous incident was not an exception or aberration. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to US Army archives, and tracing the responsibility for these atrocities all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon, War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam and how a war to win hearts and minds soon became a war against civilians.

Author : Justin Corfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313341946

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The History of Vietnam by Justin Corfield Pdf

Everyone knows Vietnam for its turbulent environment during the second half of the 20th century, but few know that archaeologists believe that civilization there existed as far back as the Bronze Age. Vietnam's history runs rampant with clashing dynasties, civil wars and power struggles between the North and South, and conflicts with neighboring and other countries. First ruled under China's close watch for centuries, Vietnam fell under conflicting commands of France and Japan during the 19th and 20th centuries-finally leading to the split of North and South Vietnam, and ultimately, the Vietnam War. Today, Vietnam still struggles with its scars from the past, but is slowly emerging as its own country, independent of China and France. An essential addition for high school and public library shelves, The History of Vietnam is the only reference book to examine Vietnam's complete history, from the 2nd century BCE to the present.