Delves into the various problems that confront Vietnam veterans and their families.
Noted observers including Thomas Lippman and Stanley Karnow provide candid portraits and critical analyses of the war in Vietnam.
Fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and interviews with the participants clarify the ordeal of the Vietnam War Published as a companion volume to Vietnam, a television history. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983.
This study of American involvement in Vietnam analyzes the ultimate failure of the war and examines its impact on US foreign policy. It seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to several important questions.
The author portrays American participation in the Vietnam War as the logical culmination of the containment policy that began under Harry Truman in the late 1940's. Also his portrayal of the complex challenge that Vietnam posed for the United States and the varied responses it evoked from American people & leaders
Laos is a major arena of international confrontation despite the Geneva Accords of 1962. Yet there is a dearth of published material on Laos, and the crucial issue of North Vietnam's role in that country has hardly been examined. This important study illuminates the North Vietnamese-Pathet Lao partnership, an understanding of which is so critical to the search for peace in Indochina. The author…
Content : - The physical setting - Long An at peace, 1954-1955 - Preparations for war, 1956-1959 - War comes to Long An, 1960-1965 - Lessons from Long An : an analytic review - Ignoring the lessons : the American war in Long An - From war to what?