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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... sent into exile early in 1965. Nguyen Van Thieu, a general trained in the United States who fought for the French, served as president of South Vietnam from 1967 until the Communists took the country in 1975. Tran Kim Tuyen, a Catholic ...
... sent into exile early in 1965. Nguyen Van Thieu, a general trained in the United States who fought for the French, served as president of South Vietnam from 1967 until the Communists took the country in 1975. Tran Kim Tuyen, a Catholic ...
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... sent over its list of subjects Eisenhower wanted to discuss. Ike proposed nine items, opening with the question of sharing nuclear weapons with America's European allies. Laos, a small but irksome country in Southeast Asia, ranked ...
... sent over its list of subjects Eisenhower wanted to discuss. Ike proposed nine items, opening with the question of sharing nuclear weapons with America's European allies. Laos, a small but irksome country in Southeast Asia, ranked ...
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... sent, like those of his sisters, directly to his father's business office. As a result, money had little reality for him. He had teased his Boston political pals about their high new White House salaries until his father reminded him ...
... sent, like those of his sisters, directly to his father's business office. As a result, money had little reality for him. He had teased his Boston political pals about their high new White House salaries until his father reminded him ...
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... sent the letter, and air traffic had not been disrupted. Kennedy was unperturbed by the delay. Fine, he said. Shall we make it Tuesday? In his role as an automobile executive, McNamara had slicked back his hair until, with his blunt ...
... sent the letter, and air traffic had not been disrupted. Kennedy was unperturbed by the delay. Fine, he said. Shall we make it Tuesday? In his role as an automobile executive, McNamara had slicked back his hair until, with his blunt ...
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... sent lengthy dispatches from an outlying area, and Ho chided him when he returned: “I didn't read them, and neither did the other comrades,” Ho said, smiling. “Usually, they were long and unintelligible.” Stirred by rumors of a movement ...
... sent lengthy dispatches from an outlying area, and Ho chided him when he returned: “I didn't read them, and neither did the other comrades,” Ho said, smiling. “Usually, they were long and unintelligible.” Stirred by rumors of a movement ...
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