Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
This unique report is professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, providing a fascinating glimpse at military public relations efforts during the early years of the Vietnam War.The origin of this pamphlet lies in the continuing program at all levels of command...
A Time for War
The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The preponderance of conflicts fought over the last seventy years have included or been centered on irregular warfare and counter-insurgency. Indeed, the helicopter's first significant...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, examines how cognitive forces shape grand wartime strategy across successive presidential administrations. By analyzing Vietnam through the lens of image and cognitive theory, the author attempts...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees—American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian,...
Enduring Vietnam
An American Generation and Its War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse the...
Vietnam
The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Henry Adams Prize
The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people—liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike—agree that the United States did not win the war, a vocal minority argue the opposite or debate...
Four Decades On
Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese...
The Turning
A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress.
In...
Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of...
The United States and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975
A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 is an invaluable reference guide to the costly and controversial war the U.S. waged in Vietnam, over the course of five presidential administrations. Focusing not only on the conflict in Southeast Asia, but also on the tumult the war inspired on the...
Withdrawal
Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures...
Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this U.S. Air Force (USAF) publication, previously classified, tells the story of the opening two years of the Rolling Thunder air campaign in North Vietnam. The United States Air Force reached its nadir during this time....