Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975Winner 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. |
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OUR VIETNAM: The War 1954-1975
Revisió d'Usuari - KirkusAn epic account of America's involvement in Vietnam by a historian who covered much of the war for the New York Times. Langguth (A Noise of War, 1994, etc.) uses the same technique he employed in his ... Llegeix la ressenya completa
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Revisió d'Usuari - LamSon - LibraryThingThis is a broad survey of the war starting in 1960 through 1975. Each chapter focuses on one year and revolves around one individual who played a major role that year in the war. I found this book to ... Llegeix la ressenya completa
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| Títol | Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 |
| Autor | A. J. Langguth |
| Edició | reimpresa |
| Editor | Simon and Schuster, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0743212444, 9780743212441 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 768 pàgines |
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