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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... asked. “That is the question the oppressed masses in the colonies are anxiously asking themselves. . . .” Ho's answer was to embrace Lenin's warning that a revolution must never begin until all conditions favored its success. Ho's ...
... asked. “That is the question the oppressed masses in the colonies are anxiously asking themselves. . . .” Ho's answer was to embrace Lenin's warning that a revolution must never begin until all conditions favored its success. Ho's ...
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... asked McNamara to make time that same afternoon for an appointment with a Kennedy brother-in-law named Sargent Shriver. The financial sacrifice that Jack Kennedy would be asking of McNamara impressed the president-elect. Except for his ...
... asked McNamara to make time that same afternoon for an appointment with a Kennedy brother-in-law named Sargent Shriver. The financial sacrifice that Jack Kennedy would be asking of McNamara impressed the president-elect. Except for his ...
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... asked directly whether the United States should intervene if the unstable Lao government asked for protection. Yes, Herter said, and he provided one of the early metaphors for the strategic importance of Southeast Asia: Laos was the ...
... asked directly whether the United States should intervene if the unstable Lao government asked for protection. Yes, Herter said, and he provided one of the early metaphors for the strategic importance of Southeast Asia: Laos was the ...
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... asked his new cabinet officers to do the same. Impressed by Herter's urgency, Kennedy quoted him directly: “If Laos fell, then Thailand, the Philippines, and of course Chiang Kai Shek would go.” At that point, Kennedy had turned to ...
... asked his new cabinet officers to do the same. Impressed by Herter's urgency, Kennedy quoted him directly: “If Laos fell, then Thailand, the Philippines, and of course Chiang Kai Shek would go.” At that point, Kennedy had turned to ...
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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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Exploring Southeast Asia: A traveller's history of the region Milton E. Osborne Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
A Companion to Post-1945 America Jean-Christophe Agnew,Roy Rosenzweig Previsualització no disponible - 2006 |