Author: Samuel Lipsman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Describes the Paris peace agreement signed in 1972 and the rapid changes in political fortunes in Southeast Asia during the two years which followed.
The False Peace, 1972-74
Author: Samuel Lipsman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Describes the Paris peace agreement signed in 1972 and the rapid changes in political fortunes in Southeast Asia during the two years which followed.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Describes the Paris peace agreement signed in 1972 and the rapid changes in political fortunes in Southeast Asia during the two years which followed.
First In, Last Out
Author: John D Howard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811766063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A Vietnam veteran recounts his experience through two tours of duty—early in the conflict and then in its final stages. Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased dramatically, from 23,000 to 184,000. When Howard returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere fifty the following year. He thus participated in the very early and very late stages of American military involvement in the Vietnam War. Howard’s two tours—the first as a platoon commander and member of an elite counterguerrilla force, and the second as a senior advisor to the South Vietnamese—provide a fascinating lens through which to view not only one soldier’s experience in Vietnam, but also the country’s.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811766063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A Vietnam veteran recounts his experience through two tours of duty—early in the conflict and then in its final stages. Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased dramatically, from 23,000 to 184,000. When Howard returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere fifty the following year. He thus participated in the very early and very late stages of American military involvement in the Vietnam War. Howard’s two tours—the first as a platoon commander and member of an elite counterguerrilla force, and the second as a senior advisor to the South Vietnamese—provide a fascinating lens through which to view not only one soldier’s experience in Vietnam, but also the country’s.
Gunfighter Nation
Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Wikipedia
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2053
Book Description
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2053
Book Description
A Tangled Web
Author: William P. Bundy
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429954388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
An authoritative historical assessment of american foreign policy in a crucial postwar decade. William Bundy's magisterial book focuses on the controversial record of Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's often overpraised foreign policy of 1969 to 1973, an era that has rightly been described as the hinge on which the last half of the century turned. Bundy's principled, clear-eyed assessment in effect pulls together all the major issues and events of the thirty-year span from the 1940s to the end of the Vietnam War, and makes it clear just how dangerous the consequences of Nixon and Kissinger's deceptive modus operandi were.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429954388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
An authoritative historical assessment of american foreign policy in a crucial postwar decade. William Bundy's magisterial book focuses on the controversial record of Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's often overpraised foreign policy of 1969 to 1973, an era that has rightly been described as the hinge on which the last half of the century turned. Bundy's principled, clear-eyed assessment in effect pulls together all the major issues and events of the thirty-year span from the 1940s to the end of the Vietnam War, and makes it clear just how dangerous the consequences of Nixon and Kissinger's deceptive modus operandi were.
Cambodia
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A Catalog of the Louis and Nancy H. Dupree Collection
Author: Avinash C. Maheshwary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
False Prophets of Peace
Author: Tikva Honig-Parnass
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Israeli Left has long held the view that the historic Zionist Labor movement stands firmly in the humanistic, democratic, and even socialist traditions. These progressive credentials are routinely called forth as cause to dismiss any of Israel's leftwing critics and their charges of injustice. Yet, a closer examination of these claims reveals a carefully constructed mythology used to obscure a more sordid reality. False Prophets of Peace unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession. Far from its professed radicalism, Honig-Parnass deftly exposes Left Zionism's contributions to Israel's exclusivist ideology and its participation in attempts to legitimize the apartheid treatment of Palestinians. Its fervent support of a Jewish-only state not only undermined the "peace process" from the very start but continues to serve as a barrier to reaching a just peace that recognizes the national and human rights of the Palestinian people.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Israeli Left has long held the view that the historic Zionist Labor movement stands firmly in the humanistic, democratic, and even socialist traditions. These progressive credentials are routinely called forth as cause to dismiss any of Israel's leftwing critics and their charges of injustice. Yet, a closer examination of these claims reveals a carefully constructed mythology used to obscure a more sordid reality. False Prophets of Peace unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession. Far from its professed radicalism, Honig-Parnass deftly exposes Left Zionism's contributions to Israel's exclusivist ideology and its participation in attempts to legitimize the apartheid treatment of Palestinians. Its fervent support of a Jewish-only state not only undermined the "peace process" from the very start but continues to serve as a barrier to reaching a just peace that recognizes the national and human rights of the Palestinian people.
Vietnam
Author: George Donelson Moss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000284271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which are either conventional diplomatic or military histories, this volume synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement. It explains why Americans tried so hard for so long to stop the spread of Communism into Indochina and why they failed. In this new edition, George Donelson Moss expands and refines key moments of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, including the strategic and diplomatic background for United States’ involvement in Indochina during World War II; how the French, with British and American support, regained control in southern Vietnam, Saigon, and the vicinity, in the fall, 1945; the account for the formation of SEATO; and the account of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. The text has also been revised and updated to align with recently published monographic literature on the time period. The accessible writing will enable students to gain a solid understanding of how and why the United States went to war against The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and why it lost the long, bitter conflict. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of foreign relations, and the Vietnam War itself.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000284271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which are either conventional diplomatic or military histories, this volume synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement. It explains why Americans tried so hard for so long to stop the spread of Communism into Indochina and why they failed. In this new edition, George Donelson Moss expands and refines key moments of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, including the strategic and diplomatic background for United States’ involvement in Indochina during World War II; how the French, with British and American support, regained control in southern Vietnam, Saigon, and the vicinity, in the fall, 1945; the account for the formation of SEATO; and the account of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. The text has also been revised and updated to align with recently published monographic literature on the time period. The accessible writing will enable students to gain a solid understanding of how and why the United States went to war against The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and why it lost the long, bitter conflict. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of foreign relations, and the Vietnam War itself.
Crosswinds
Author: Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Tilford exposes the generals' tunnel-vision. . . . He demolishes the myth that the 1972 'Christmas bombing' brought Hanoi to its knees . . . . His controversial thesis is that the bombing of the North and the interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail were in no way decisive and that USAF leadership obtusely failed to perceive that North Vietnam, an agricultural nation, was simply not susceptible to strategic bombing."--Publishers Weekly ". . . . hard hitting study on the failure of American air power in the Vietnam War . . . . The acute intellectual content of the book and the author's engaging writing style make the book easy to recommend."--Armed Forces Journal International
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Tilford exposes the generals' tunnel-vision. . . . He demolishes the myth that the 1972 'Christmas bombing' brought Hanoi to its knees . . . . His controversial thesis is that the bombing of the North and the interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail were in no way decisive and that USAF leadership obtusely failed to perceive that North Vietnam, an agricultural nation, was simply not susceptible to strategic bombing."--Publishers Weekly ". . . . hard hitting study on the failure of American air power in the Vietnam War . . . . The acute intellectual content of the book and the author's engaging writing style make the book easy to recommend."--Armed Forces Journal International