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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Pàgina 21
... China, broke with the Soviets in the 1960s and welcomed Richard Nixon to China on February 21, 1972. Zhou Enlai (1898–1976), premier of the People's Republic of China for twenty-seven years from 1949 until his death, endorsed an ...
... China, broke with the Soviets in the 1960s and welcomed Richard Nixon to China on February 21, 1972. Zhou Enlai (1898–1976), premier of the People's Republic of China for twenty-seven years from 1949 until his death, endorsed an ...
Pàgina 31
... China had already conquered Tonkin. Invading from the north in 111 b.c., the Chinese held the land for more than a thousand years. Viet was the Chinese word for a tribe of barbarians who had moved to the south—or nam—side of the Yangtze ...
... China had already conquered Tonkin. Invading from the north in 111 b.c., the Chinese held the land for more than a thousand years. Viet was the Chinese word for a tribe of barbarians who had moved to the south—or nam—side of the Yangtze ...
Pàgina 32
... Chinese introduced the plow and other farming tools to the Red River Delta, where the city of Hanoi would one day ... Chinese, and yet the Chinese never succeeded either in absorbing or quelling them. Children of Ho's generation were ...
... Chinese introduced the plow and other farming tools to the Red River Delta, where the city of Hanoi would one day ... Chinese, and yet the Chinese never succeeded either in absorbing or quelling them. Children of Ho's generation were ...
Pàgina 34
... Chinese antiquities.” The demands of Chinese calligraphy had made his fingers adept at retouching photographs, and Ho ran an advertisement in a working-class newspaper: “If you would like a lifetime memento of your family, have your ...
... Chinese antiquities.” The demands of Chinese calligraphy had made his fingers adept at retouching photographs, and Ho ran an advertisement in a working-class newspaper: “If you would like a lifetime memento of your family, have your ...
Pàgina 35
... Chinese embassy in Paris. He claimed to be a Chinese citizen heading home by way of Moscow. Once in the Soviet Union, he was introduced to leading Bolsheviks—Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin and Joseph Stalin, whom Ho felt had a special ...
... Chinese embassy in Paris. He claimed to be a Chinese citizen heading home by way of Moscow. Once in the Soviet Union, he was introduced to leading Bolsheviks—Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin and Joseph Stalin, whom Ho felt had a special ...
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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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