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Lessons in disaster
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Gordon M. Goldstein |
Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions tha… |
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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
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Spencer Tucker |
"This encyclopedia is unique for its comprehensive coverage of the military, social, and political aspects of the Vietnam War. There are clear articles on military tactics and weapon systems, detail… |
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Haunting legacy
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Marvin L. Kalb |
"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama a… |
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Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
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Brian Delf,Gordon L. Rottman |
In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in some areas the Viet Cong had developed vast tunnel complexes in which to hide from the enemy. It was lon… |
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Rethinking the Vietnam War
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John Dumbrell |
"This incisive new text provides a broad-ranging reassessment of the Vietnam war and its political and historical significance for America, Vietnam itself, their allies, the region and the world. Joh… |
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Why did the Vietnam War happen?
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Clive Gifford |
This book looks at the causes of the Vietnam War and surrounding controversies. |
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America in Vietnam
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Thomas McCormick,Lloyd Gardner,W. Lafeber,William Appleman Williams |
A collection of essays and documents discussing the causes, character, and consequences of American involvement in Vietnam. |
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Stop this war!
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Margot Fortunato Galt |
A social history of the protest by United States citizens against the Vietnam War, from the days of the first American involvement in Vietnam in the early 1960s through the 1970s. |
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Operation chaos
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Matthew Sweet |
"Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even w… |
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American military intervention in unconventional war
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Wayne Bert |
PART I: INTRODUCTION The New International Environment US Policies: Origins and Objectives Counterinsurgency and US Adaptation to Fourth Generation War PART II: CASE STUDIES The Philippines: 1898-190… |
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Abandoned in hell
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William Albracht |
"In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard m… |
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A rumor of war
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Philip Caputo |
xxix, 354 pages ; 21 cm |
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The experience of war
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Tim Cooke |
Describes the experiences of soldiers on both sides of the Vietnam War as well as the suffering of civilians. |
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Distant war
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Mark Phillip Yablonka |
Is a compilation of eighteen years of the author's reportage on American involvement in Indochina, telling of those who were there and what they suffered, how most survived and how they overcame adve… |
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The Vietnam War
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Katherine V. Dillon,J. Michael Wenger,Donald M. Goldstein |
The Vietnam War: the words conjure up many images. Everyone has pictures of the Vietnam War in his or her mind. This was the war that shaped an entire generation. Its images are captured here. In thi… |
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The Vietnam War
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Wayne Vansant,Dwight Jon Zimmerman |
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures—a war lost on the home front alth… |
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Vietnam, there and here
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Margot C. J. Mabie |
Discusses the war in Vietnam, the turmoil it caused in this country, and the issues it raised that still remain a source of conflict. |
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Tinker Vs Des Moines
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Doreen Rappaport |
Using edited transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two other students who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge … |
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After the Flag Has Been Folded
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Karen Spears Zacharias |
Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being … |
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Legacy of Discord
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Gil Dorland |
"More than a quarter century has now passed since the fall of Saigon. We still seek answers. Those who were responsible for planning the Vietnam War, those who fought in it, those who fought against … |
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