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
What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civili…
This book is a story full of violence and numbing despair, but also one rich with lessons for American foreign policy, based on extensive research in U.S. Army archives and many personal interviews with those who experienced the Vietnam war in Hau Nghia, during the period of 1963–1973.
An examination of the "big power" triangular relationship involving China, the Soviet Union and the United States between 1964 and 1980. The author challenges the myth that, during the Nixon years, this strategic triangle was efficient in its efforts to halt the Vietnam War.
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