Vietnam the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Paperback - Michael Lind

Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist natio...

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

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Reducere. Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was foug...

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The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict...

Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

Reducere. The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a forc...

DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

Reducere. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in ...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? I...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Michael H. HuntAn essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary s...

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Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the War of 1812, then keep reading...Among all of the conflicts that took place in American hist...

Reducere. DescriptionMost Dangerous is the award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most dangerous weapon: the truth. In 1964, Dan...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the War of 1812, then keep reading...Among all of the conflicts that took place in American hist...

Reducere. Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other...

Reducere. Michael Walsh had enlisted in the Army when he was sixteen years old. He departed shortly after turning seventeen. About a week after turning eight...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Many people in the West look upon the Second S...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Many people in the West look upon the Second S...

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Reducere. ★ ``Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction.``* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of ...

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A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the left and right offers a bold new framework for understanding the turmoil in the West

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

"Tony Hirashiki was simply one of the best television cameramen to cover the Vietnam War. His soaring video, often acquired only at great personal ...

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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack,...

Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sergio MillerIllustration(s): 32-page black and white plate sectionNumber of pages: 528Publication d...

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Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is about the Vietnam War. It seeks to answer one specific question - why did the US fail to achieve its principal obj...