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Category : Vietnam
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Who's who in Vietnam
Author: Who's who in North Vietnam
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Category : Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
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Book Description
Who's who in Vietnam
Author: Who's who in Vietnam
Author: Who's who in North Vietnam
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Category : Vietnam (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
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Who's who in China, North Vietnam and North Korea.
Author: WHO'S WHO.Who's who in China, North Vietnam and North Korea
Author: In Retrospect
Author: Robert McnamaraPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525562605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.
Advice And Support: The Early Years 1941-1960 [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: Ronald H. SpectorPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782899065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Includes over 75 maps, photos and plans. The present volume describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate post-war years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. The author enjoyed access to the official records of the period and examined personal papers, interviews, other documentary sources, and miscellaneous published materials. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, this volume is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.
Why Vietnam Matters
Author: Rufus PhillipsPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781682473108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Phillips's short chapter on lessons the U.S. should have learned from the Vietnam War should be mandatory reading in Washington, D.C. -- Publishers Weekly It is, among other things, a wonderful read, full of detail and drama. --George Packer, The New Yorker Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he finds that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late--we missed the war's essential political character. Documenting the story from his own personal files, now available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archive, as well as from the historical record, the former government official paints striking portraits of such key figures as John F. Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and Ngo Dinh Diem, among others with whom he dealt.