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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... Paris peace talks. He declined the honor when he and Kissinger were awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize because, he said, peace had not yet been established. Luu Doan Huynh joined Giap's army as a seventeen-year-old and held posts in ...
... Paris peace talks. He declined the honor when he and Kissinger were awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize because, he said, peace had not yet been established. Luu Doan Huynh joined Giap's army as a seventeen-year-old and held posts in ...
Pàgina 15
... Paris peace talks. When Communist soldiers entered Saigon in 1975, Huynh was an analyst in Hanoi with the Foreign Ministry. Nguyen Minh Vy, who joined with Ho in 1945, governed the Fifth Zone during the war with France, overseeing the ...
... Paris peace talks. When Communist soldiers entered Saigon in 1975, Huynh was an analyst in Hanoi with the Foreign Ministry. Nguyen Minh Vy, who joined with Ho in 1945, governed the Fifth Zone during the war with France, overseeing the ...
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... Paris as part of Harriman's team and stayed on under Nixon until July 1970. Alexander M. Haig was wounded while commanding a battalion in Vietnam in the mid-sixties. As Kissinger's military aide in the National Security Council, Haig ...
... Paris as part of Harriman's team and stayed on under Nixon until July 1970. Alexander M. Haig was wounded while commanding a battalion in Vietnam in the mid-sixties. As Kissinger's military aide in the National Security Council, Haig ...
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... Paris peace talks in 1972. Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), a four-star army general brought back from retirement by John Kennedy, chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff before Johnson appointed him as ambassador to South Vietnam in 1964. The ...
... Paris peace talks in 1972. Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), a four-star army general brought back from retirement by John Kennedy, chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff before Johnson appointed him as ambassador to South Vietnam in 1964. The ...
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... 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 sympathy for ...
... 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 sympathy for ...
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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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