Timothy J Lomperis: 2 books
From People’s War to People’s Rule
Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Timothy Lomperis persuasively argues the ironic point that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during...
Reading the Wind
The Literature of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1986
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal,...