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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... Beijing and supported the Khmer Rouge. LAOS Kong Le, a Lao army captain, headed the coup in August 1960 that overthrew the government backed by the United States and returned neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma to power. PhoumiNosavan ...
... Beijing and supported the Khmer Rouge. LAOS Kong Le, a Lao army captain, headed the coup in August 1960 that overthrew the government backed by the United States and returned neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma to power. PhoumiNosavan ...
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... Beijing, reading the newly translated Communist Manifesto and pondering where the Chinese peasant fit into Marx's theory of capitalists and workers. He became an organizer and set up a cell of Communist revolutionaries devoted to ...
... Beijing, reading the newly translated Communist Manifesto and pondering where the Chinese peasant fit into Marx's theory of capitalists and workers. He became an organizer and set up a cell of Communist revolutionaries devoted to ...
Pàgina 46
... Beijing. It was only after the trek had ended—and was being compared in rigor and daring to Hannibal crossing the Alps—that it was called the Long March. Hannibal had been on the attack against Rome, Mao was in retreat, and yet from his ...
... Beijing. It was only after the trek had ended—and was being compared in rigor and daring to Hannibal crossing the Alps—that it was called the Long March. Hannibal had been on the attack against Rome, Mao was in retreat, and yet from his ...
Pàgina 64
... Beijing and sent his troops on to decisive battles in Nanking and Shanghai. Chiang escaped from the mainland with the remnant of his army and established a government in Taiwan. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, chairman of the new ...
... Beijing and sent his troops on to decisive battles in Nanking and Shanghai. Chiang escaped from the mainland with the remnant of his army and established a government in Taiwan. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, chairman of the new ...
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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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