The Vietnam War

Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502624699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Andrew Wiest and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War chronicles the first war to be televised. The comprehensive description of battles, social and political issues, and revelations are all the more powerful because of first-hand accounts, telling photographs, and other primary sources. Students will learn the causes, outcomes, and repercussions of this polemic conflict through a historical lens and from the perspectives of soldiers, civilians, and others caught up in the Vietnam War.

Author : Marilyn B. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405172045
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Vietnam War written by Marilyn B. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese perspective, the antiwar movement, and the American home front. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes a select bibliography to guide further research.

Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9781405874342
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the Vietnam War - a war which was enormously influential in shaping the political, diplomatic, economic, and military life of both the US and Vietnam. The book's main focus is on the war itself up to 1975.

Author : Edward Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405196777
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Edward Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America’s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans and Vietnamese Introductory headnotes place each document in context Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconic photographs and political cartoons

Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307939
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by David L. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War endured for thirty years, cost billions of dollars, and resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths. Massive American military intervention in Vietnam embroiled America in protests, placed enormous strains on the western alliance, and altered U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China. David L. Anderson's concise overview critiques U.S. errors in magnifying the strategic importance of South-east Asia in the Cold War and in underestimating the strength of the Vietnamese communist movement.

Author : Gordon Kerr
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1843442140
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Vietnam War written by Gordon Kerr and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American politics and society for many years, even after the withdrawal of US forces in 1972. For the people of North Vietnam it was just another in a long line of foreign invaders. For two thousand years they had struggled for self-determination, coming into conflict during that time with the Chinese, the Mongols, the European colonial powers, the Japanese and the French. Now it was the turn of the United States, a far-away nation reluctant to go to war but determined to prevent Vietnam from falling into Communist hands. A Short History of the Vietnam War explains how the United States became involved in its longest war, a conflict that, from the outset, many claimed it could never win. Providing a timeline of the war, it details the escalation of American involvement from the provision of military advisors and equipment to the threatened South Vietnamese, to an all-out shooting war involving American soldiers, airmen and sailors, of whom around 58,000 would die and more than 300,000 would be wounded. Their struggle was against an indomitable enemy, able to absorb huge losses in terms of life and infrastructure. The politics of the war are examined and the decisions and ambitions of five US presidents are addressed in the light of what many have described as a defeat for American might. The book also explores the relationship of the Vietnam War to the Cold War politics of the time

Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135187762
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Vietnam War written by Andrew Wiest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict. America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the conflict that helped to fundamentally change the nation. With chapters written by subject area specialists, America and the Vietnam War takes on subjects such as women’s role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, race and the war, and veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder. Features include: chapter summaries timelines discussion questions guides to further reading a companion website with primary source documents and tools (such as music and movie playlists) for both instructors and students. Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.

Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524733105
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Vietnam War—based on the celebrated PBS television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women—those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, both victims and victors—willing for the first time to share their memories of Vietnam as it really was. A magisterial tour de force, The Vietnam War is an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict.

Author : Andreas W. Daum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008761
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America, the Vietnam War, and the World written by Andreas W. Daum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: "This book presents new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and the role of this war in modern history. The volume reveals 'America's War' as an international event that reverberated all over the world: in domestic settings of numerous nation-states, combatants and non-combatants alike, as well as in transnational relations and alliance systems. The volume thereby covers a wide geographical range-from Berkeley and Berlin to Cambodia and Canberra. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues no less than cultural and intellectual consequences of 'Vietnam'. The authors also set the Vietnam War in comparison to other major conflicts in world history; they cover over three centuries, and develop general insights into the tragedies and trajectories of military conflicts as phenomena of modern societies in general. For the first time, 'America's War' is thus depicted as a truly global event whose origins and characteristics deserve an interdisciplinary treatment."

Author : John Prados
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden History of the Vietnam War written by John Prados and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on key strategies, crucial issues, battle actions, and personalities in the Vietnam conflict, John Prados draws from a broad range of evidence to illuminate the high points of the war and puncture its popular and enduring mythologies. A model of lucid writing and fair judgment which tells us things we need to know.--Thomas Powers. A sophisticated, eye-opening text that anyone interested in the disputes surrounding the war should read.--Peter R. Farber, War in History. Thought-provoking, enlightening...a fascinating book.--James C. Ruehrmund, Jr., Richmond Times-Dispatch.