More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. I…
The story of the Nazis, their extravagant spectacles, and their extreme cruelty
By 1990 Vietnam had introduced many radical market reforms before finding itself overtaken and its leadership apparently paralysed by the events in Eastern Europe and the USSR. This examines the serious political and economic issues facing the ageing leaders at the party congress of May 1992. "Published in North America for the Royal Institute of International Affairs." Originally published…
East Timor is the largest and longest overseas deployment of New Zealand troops since Malaya/Borneo. Using personal letters, extracts from diaries, interviews and many photographs, this text aims to explain why the New Zealand defence force personnel were sent to East Timor and what they did when they went there.
From various sources, this text documents post-independence history in two former colonies: one Dutch, the other Portuguese. It examines the Indonesian claim to, and invasion of, East Timor, all in the need of "unification" of East Timorese territory with the island republic of Indonesia. [From : Worldcat]
Content : Ch. 1. Historical setting Ch. 2. The society and its environment Ch. 3. The economy Ch. 4. Government and politics Ch. 5. National security Revised edition of: Area handbook for Indonesia / co-authors, Nena Vreeland [and others] 3rd ed. 1975 "Research completed October 1982."
LTG Boonsrang Niumpradit recounts his experiences as Force Commander of the United Nations Transitional Administrator in East Timor (UNTAET) from 19 July 2000 - 1 September 2001