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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... forces defeated Lon Nol in 1975, and as prime minister Pol Pot's policies were responsible for the death of 1.5 million Cambodians. His regime was overthrown by an army from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1978. Norodom Sihanouk ...
... forces defeated Lon Nol in 1975, and as prime minister Pol Pot's policies were responsible for the death of 1.5 million Cambodians. His regime was overthrown by an army from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1978. Norodom Sihanouk ...
Pàgina 20
... forces in the Central Highlands. He died in a helicopter crash during the North's Easter offensive of 1972. William Westmoreland replaced General Harkins and commanded U.S. forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, when he became U.S. ...
... forces in the Central Highlands. He died in a helicopter crash during the North's Easter offensive of 1972. William Westmoreland replaced General Harkins and commanded U.S. forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, when he became U.S. ...
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... forces had brutally contrasted Humphrey's failure to serve in World War II with Jack Kennedy's heroism in the South Pacific. But when the whooping died away and the Stevenson signs were hauled down, the nominee had been Jack Kennedy ...
... forces had brutally contrasted Humphrey's failure to serve in World War II with Jack Kennedy's heroism in the South Pacific. But when the whooping died away and the Stevenson signs were hauled down, the nominee had been Jack Kennedy ...
Pàgina 45
... forces, but he agreed to support Chiang against China's competing warlords. When the inevitable rupture came, Mao retreated to the countryside. There he received word that his wife, Yang Kaihui, and his younger sister had been executed ...
... forces, but he agreed to support Chiang against China's competing warlords. When the inevitable rupture came, Mao retreated to the countryside. There he received word that his wife, Yang Kaihui, and his younger sister had been executed ...
Pàgina 46
... forces recruited strenuously, but Chiang was not idle. Adopting tactics from a new German military adviser, Chiang surrounded Mao's forces in the south of Jiangxi province with a million troops and began to tighten the noose. He seemed ...
... forces recruited strenuously, but Chiang was not idle. Adopting tactics from a new German military adviser, Chiang surrounded Mao's forces in the south of Jiangxi province with a million troops and began to tighten the noose. He seemed ...
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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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