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 15
... 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 four coastal provinces south of Hue ...
... 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 four coastal provinces south of Hue ...
Pàgina 46
... soldiers hiked across 6,000 miles of China's roughest terrain. They crossed twenty-four rivers and—by Mao's poetic estimate—a thousand mountains. Wasted by fever, his matted hair hanging to his shoulders, Mao collapsed twice from ...
... soldiers hiked across 6,000 miles of China's roughest terrain. They crossed twenty-four rivers and—by Mao's poetic estimate—a thousand mountains. Wasted by fever, his matted hair hanging to his shoulders, Mao collapsed twice from ...
Pàgina 50
... soldiers in such countries always seem to have better morale than the soldiers representing democracy? Was there something about the Communist philosophy that gave their supporters a certain inspiration and dedication? The questions ...
... soldiers in such countries always seem to have better morale than the soldiers representing democracy? Was there something about the Communist philosophy that gave their supporters a certain inspiration and dedication? The questions ...
Pàgina 54
... soldiers. Then, at the Vietminh base camp, Giap got word that this time a report of Ho's death was no hoax. He had truly died in China. Like his comrades, Giap was all but paralyzed by grief, but he rallied to stage a memorial service ...
... soldiers. Then, at the Vietminh base camp, Giap got word that this time a report of Ho's death was no hoax. He had truly died in China. Like his comrades, Giap was all but paralyzed by grief, but he rallied to stage a memorial service ...
Pàgina 65
... army. But the French soldiers controlled only Vietnam's cities; the countryside belonged to the Vietminh. Ho reproached the pessimists in his ranks with a prediction: “Today the locust fights the elephant,” KENNEDYAND HO, 1960 65.
... army. But the French soldiers controlled only Vietnam's cities; the countryside belonged to the Vietminh. Ho reproached the pessimists in his ranks with a prediction: “Today the locust fights the elephant,” KENNEDYAND HO, 1960 65.
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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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