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Author: Samuel Lipsman
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the Paris peace agreement signed in 1972 and the rapid changes in political fortunes in Southeast Asia during the two years which followed.
Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780806130316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Author: John D Howard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-06-14
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0811766063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: William P. Bundy
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1999-06-04
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1429954388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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.
Author: Tikva Honig-Parnass
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1608461300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Avinash C. Maheshwary
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Donelson Moss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 1315510790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975--with a concluding section that traces U.S.-Vietnam relations from the end of the war in 1975 to the present. 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. Key topics: The Fall of Saigon: The End as Prelude. Vietnam: A Place and A People. The Elephant and the Tiger. An Experiment in Nation Building. Raising the Stakes. Going to War. The Chain of Thunders. The Year of the Monkey. A War to End a War. The End of the Tunnel. Market: For anyone curious to know about the long American involvement in Southeast Asia, 1942-1975.
Author: Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008-12-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781603441261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
