A collection of photographs from "LIFE" magazine and world archives, many previously unpublished, that cover World War II and its aftermath
An expanded English version of La fin d'une guerre; Indochine 1954, by Jean Lacouture and Philippe Devillers, first published in 1960. Bibliography: p. 399-403
Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, Indochina, Greece, the Philippines, Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos. Lomperis maintains that popular ins…
Gives an accurate and objective analysis of the hostilities at home and abroad. This edition provides fuller discussions of domestic opposition to the war and the relationship between the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong. It also includes information from the Johnson Library and other released archives.
The Guadalcanal campaign and the slow conquest of islands in the Pacific by U.S. forces during the last months of World War II. Part of the Time-Life series on World War II