Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet and American sources, Ang provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975) from the Vietnamese communists perspective....Loe edasi...
Pham explores North Vietnams unique challenges and perspectives to provide a holistic understanding of the Vietnam War. Examining the emotional, philosophical and cultural dimensions of Northern Vietnamese experiences, this book transcends military...Loe edasi...
This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war, and to investi...Loe edasi...
The Silent Majority Speech treats Richard Nixons address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to US global power and domestic life. This book is critical reading for stu...Loe edasi...
This book is a unique source of information about U.S. troop involvement in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1972. It stresses that Vietnam was a war without fronts or battle linesa war different from any that the United States had previously fought....Loe edasi...
This book examines the world confronted by the men of an American combat division during the Vietnam War. It provides all of the major parts of the soldiers worldincluding subjects as diverse as climate, living conditions, deadly combat, and morale...Loe edasi...
That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator,...Loe edasi...
The Vietnam War examines this conflict from its origins up until North Vietnams victory in 1975. Historian Mitchell K. Halls lucid account is an ideal introduction to the key debates surrounding a war that remains controversial and disputed in Ameri...Loe edasi...
Drawing on a wealth of recent research, this introduction aims to place the Vietnam war within the contexts of European colonization, American cold war strategy and Vietnams own political history....Loe edasi...
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(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Aug-2013, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110314724)
Long before Theodor Herzl, Zionist thinkers such as Moses Hess, Leon Pinsker, and Isaac Rülf called for the self-liberation of the Jewish people. Schoeps shows how Hess, Pinsker, and Rülf influenced Zionist ideology and how the messianic implication...Loe edasi...
Documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War. This account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing t...Loe edasi...
Collects critiques of Triumph Forsaken and catalogues arguments about how the war should be remembered, how history may be reconstructed, and by whom....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2010, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444324129)
This unique work develops a theological analysis of the American war in Vietnam, constructing a Christian account of memory in relation to the events that unfolded during the course of this long and tragic conflict. In doing so, it reveals broader i...Loe edasi...
Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era....Loe edasi...
Describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapores attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, this book reveals the motivations behind the d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2008, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195365924)
Using a vast array of sources - from government documents to memoirs, film, and fiction - A Time for Peace provides an illuminating account of a war that still looms large in the American imagination....Loe edasi...
