... Nguyen Cao , 101 Maritime Studies Group , 110 McNamara , Robert S , 76 , 77,136 Meadows , Richard , 115 Mekong ... Tanks ( LCT ) , 39 Landing Ship Support , Large ( LSSL ) , 39 Lang Chi Dam , 165 Lang Son garrison , 17 , 17 , 19,38 ...
With generous selections from the documentary records, the book dispels distortions and illuminates in depth the many facets of the war, from Vietnam’s history before the war, to Washington’s insider policy making, to troop perspectives ...
Presenting all sides of a complicated and tragic chapter in recent history, O'Connor explains why the United States got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America. Original.
A collection of letters, poems, and petitions from the front, written mostly by infantrymen to their families and friends, evokes the mingled emotions of an intense longing for home, fear, hope, grief, and anger aroused by the Vietnam War.
We must learn more about Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese paradigms in order to untangle the muddled debates about our own. Realizing that we must do this is the first and most important lesson of Vietnam.
Eugene G. Windchy, Tonkin Gulf (Doubleday, 1971), p. 5. Ibid., 21. p. 225. ... General Curtis E. LeMay with MacKinlay Kantor, Mission with LeMay: My Story (Doubleday, 1965), p. 564. See also Gallucci, Neither Peace nor Honor, p.
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history.
... they could never drop napalm on American troops or carpet-bomb American cities and industrial complexes with B-52s. ... Any hit within a half kilometer would collapse the walls of an un-reinforced bunker, burying alive the people ...
In the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the...
Based on extensive archival research, this is the best account to date of one of the defining moments of the Vietnam War. "--
Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and ...