Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975Simon and Schuster, 15 de nov. 2000 - 768 pàgines Winner 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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... American embassy in Saigon in 1965, briefed the Wise Men at the March 1968 meeting that left most of them opposed to the war. In 1968, Habib went to Paris as part of Harriman's team and stayed on under Nixon until July 1970. Alexander M ...
... American embassy in Saigon in 1965, briefed the Wise Men at the March 1968 meeting that left most of them opposed to the war. In 1968, Habib went to Paris as part of Harriman's team and stayed on under Nixon until July 1970. Alexander M ...
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... America's destitute farmers in the film version of The Grapes of Wrath. And the war did bring limited American attention to both Mao and Ho. The Vietminh rescued a Lieutenant Shaw, an American pilot shot down over the jungle, and ...
... America's destitute farmers in the film version of The Grapes of Wrath. And the war did bring limited American attention to both Mao and Ho. The Vietminh rescued a Lieutenant Shaw, an American pilot shot down over the jungle, and ...
Pàgina 55
... American contact, Charles Fenn, to set up a meeting. Fenn worked for the Office of Strategic Services, which had ... America. After all, the photo was signed, “Yours Sincerely, Claire L. Chennault.” Given his lifelong admiration for ...
... American contact, Charles Fenn, to set up a meeting. Fenn worked for the Office of Strategic Services, which had ... America. After all, the photo was signed, “Yours Sincerely, Claire L. Chennault.” Given his lifelong admiration for ...
Pàgina 57
... American president was dead. His successor, Harry Truman, pledged to follow Roosevelt's policies but accepted instead an interpretation of the Yalta agreements that permitted the French to control Indochina's fate. The new president's ...
... American president was dead. His successor, Harry Truman, pledged to follow Roosevelt's policies but accepted instead an interpretation of the Yalta agreements that permitted the French to control Indochina's fate. The new president's ...
Pàgina 58
... Americans working with Vietnamese units until the day that the Vietminh marched off to confront the Japanese. As they left, Patti had a premonition. Some day, he told himself, our American training and weapons may be used against the ...
... Americans working with Vietnamese units until the day that the Vietminh marched off to confront the Japanese. As they left, Patti had a premonition. Some day, he told himself, our American training and weapons may be used against the ...
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Pàgina 48 - In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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