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"Going beyond the dominant orthodox narrative to incorporate insight from revisionist scholarship on the Vietnam War, Michael G. Kort presents the case that the United States should have been able to win the war, and at a much lower cost than it suffered in defeat. Presenting a study that is both historiographic and a narrative history, Kort analyzes important factors such as the strong nationalist credentials and leadership qualities of South Vietnam's...
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The program examines the Latino experience during a war that placed its heaviest burden on working class youth and their communities. Framing the documentary are memoirs of two siblings, Everett and Delia Alvarez, who stood on opposite sides of the Vietnam War, one as a POW and the other protesting at home. During the war, Latinos began asking for the first time: What is the true cost of war and the appropriate price of citizenship?
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I seek to present here a causal explanation of the Vietnam War and to probe its meaning for the modern historical experience. I will examine in considerable depth the Communist Party, the Republic of Vietnam, and the United States. By focusing on how each side was affected by larger military, economic, social, international, and political-ideological structural trends operating simultaneously, I am able to juxtapose forces and factors influencing...
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"I want to go back to when America had a beauty, before the White man ... Indians and braceros, blacks and white, Vietnam and Thailand, poverty and the moon program ... military, rednecks, bigoted, prejudiced, Mexican, American Indian. Eastlake is bitter, but he can see hope at the end of the strife." Dust jacket.
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More than 150 distinguished authors--novelists, playwrights, biographers, poets and historians--in some 30 countries all over the world were asked their views on American intervention in Vietnam. Their answers are recorded in this book. They cover a wide range of attitudes: from outrage, through neutrality, to whole-hearted support for U.S. policy.
18) Charlie Mike
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"If war may be said to bring out the worst in governments, it frequently brings out the best in people. This novel about some of the very best. Some led. Some followed. Some died."--Publisher's description
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This authoritative encyclopedia separates the facts of America's longest war from the polemics that obscured them. It is an invaluable look at the people, places, events, and ideas - both on the battlefield and on the home front - of this confusing and contentious period. Readers will appreciate the even-handed treatment of the war that shaped and continues to shape America at the end of the twentieth century. Its 564 articles, 210 illustrations,...
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The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a North Vietnamese infantryman. In a series of flashbacks, as he buries the dead following a battle, the narrator recounts his 10 years of service, the comrades he lost and the way the war ruined the love of his life. The author is a veteran of the NVA's Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, a 500-man unit from which only 10 men survived. He lives in Hanoi.
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