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 34
... called the Overseas Workers. By the time he sailed to France, he had taken yet another name— Nguyen Ai Quoc, Nguyen the Patriot. In Paris, Ho supported himself as an interpreter and by painting art works that were sold as “Chinese ...
... called the Overseas Workers. By the time he sailed to France, he had taken yet another name— Nguyen Ai Quoc, Nguyen the Patriot. In Paris, Ho supported himself as an interpreter and by painting art works that were sold as “Chinese ...
Pàgina 43
... called for a strong U.S. chief executive, served by a secretary of state who was content with an advisory role. The piece could be read as a reproach to Rusk's friend, Foster Dulles, now safely dead. Chester Bowles saw in it a troubling ...
... called for a strong U.S. chief executive, served by a secretary of state who was content with an advisory role. The piece could be read as a reproach to Rusk's friend, Foster Dulles, now safely dead. Chester Bowles saw in it a troubling ...
Pàgina 46
... called the Long March. Hannibal had been on the attack against Rome, Mao was in retreat, and yet from his new base in the ancient city of Yanan, Mao laid out a strategy for aggressive peasant warfare. Traditional Communist thinking ...
... called the Long March. Hannibal had been on the attack against Rome, Mao was in retreat, and yet from his new base in the ancient city of Yanan, Mao laid out a strategy for aggressive peasant warfare. Traditional Communist thinking ...
Pàgina 49
... called for him to spend forty-five minutes alone with Eisenhower reviewing emergency military procedures. Then they would join cabinet members and aides to discuss the country's urgent problems. Kennedy was pleased to be seeing ...
... called for him to spend forty-five minutes alone with Eisenhower reviewing emergency military procedures. Then they would join cabinet members and aides to discuss the country's urgent problems. Kennedy was pleased to be seeing ...
Pàgina 52
... called “Uncle” as a mark of respect. But his eyes shone with revolutionary fervor, and as they walked along a riverbank, Giap was captivated by conversation that was much livelier than he had anticipated from the hunching of Ho's ...
... called “Uncle” as a mark of respect. But his eyes shone with revolutionary fervor, and as they walked along a riverbank, Giap was captivated by conversation that was much livelier than he had anticipated from the hunching of Ho's ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 312 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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.
Pàgina 566 - I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a twoterm President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.
Pàgina 350 - US aims as follows: 70% — to avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor). 20% — to keep SVN (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10% — to permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life.
Pàgina 639 - Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974.
Pàgina 446 - The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 non-combatants a week, while .trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.
Pàgina 493 - Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
Pàgina 155 - The troops will march in; the bands will play; the crowds will cheer; and in four days everyone will have forgotten. Then we will be told we have to send in more troops. It's like taking a drink. The effect wears off, and you have to take another.
Pàgina 208 - If I tried to pull out completely now, we would have another Joe McCarthy red scare on our hands, but I can do it after I'm reelected. So we had better make damned sure that I am reelected.
Referències a aquest llibre
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 |