America's Longest War : the United States and Vietnam 1950-1975 (2nd ed.) / G…

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.

A Short History of the Vietnam War / edited by Allan R. Millett

Noted observers including Thomas Lippman and Stanley Karnow provide candid portraits and critical analyses of the war in Vietnam.

America's Longest War : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (3rd ed.) / …

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.

America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 / George C. H…

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

On Strategy : a critical analysis of the Vietnam War / Harry G. Summers, Jr.

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…

Long Binh Jail : an oral history of Vietnam's notorious U.S. military prison …

"Long Binh Jail was a place so feared that American soldiers would rather face the Viet Cong than be sent there. Known as "LBJ" or simply "The Stockade," it was officially the U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam. Within its confines were Americans whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. Containing up to …

A Better War : the Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Y…

ครั้งที่จัดทำ

1st ed.

ISBN/ISSN

0156013096

ลักษณะวัสดุ

xv, 507 p. : ill.

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959.7043373 S713B

War in a time of peace : Bush, Clinton, and the generals

Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post- Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global eve…