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Vietnam An American Ordeal

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ISBN-10: 0130600334

ISBN-13: 9780130600332

Edition: 4th 2002 (Revised)

Authors: George Moss

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For a variety of undergraduate-level history courses covering recent U.S. history and the U.S. experience in Vietnam, including courses in military history, modern U.S. diplomatic history, and courses on the Cold War and on Southeast Asia. This text provides a comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975with a concluding section that traces U.S.-Vietnam relations from the end of the war in 1975 to the present. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnamwhich are either conventional diplomatic or military historiesthis text synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more…    
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Book details

List price: $53.40
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Vietnam: A Place and a People
The Land
The Forge of History
The French Colonial Era
The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism
The Japanese Occupation
The Roots of American Involvement
The August Revolution
The Elephant and the Tiger
The French Return
The Franco-Vietminh War
The Franco-American Partnership
The Road to Dien Bien Phu
To the Brink of War
The Geneva Solution
Lessons
An Experiment in Nation Building
Ngo Dinh Diem Takes Charge
Social Revolution
Building a Nation
The Roots of Revolution
The Land of a Million Elephants
A Failed Experiment
Raising the Stakes
Cold War Crises
A Limited Partnership
Social Revolution in the South
The Decline and Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem
A Failed Partnership
America Goes to War
The Same Only More
Coup Season
In Dubious Battles
The Election of 1964
Rolling Thunder
Dahlias and Gladioli
Decisions to Wage an American War
The Chain of Thunders
The Concept of Limited War
War of Attrition
Search and Destroy
The Battle that Changed the War
A Wider War
Thunder from the Air
Aerial Attrition Warfare
The Other War
Diplomatic Charades
War at Home
The Year of the Monkey
Surprise Attack!
Political Crisis
Johnson Agonistes
The Televised War
Talking and Fighting
The Election of 1968
A War to End a War
Nixon and Kissinger
Vietnamization
An Army in Decline
Widening the War: Cambodia
Widening the War: Laos
War Weariness
The Nguyen Hue Offensive
Neither Peace Nor Honor
The End of the Tunnel
Indecent Interval
Homecoming
The Postwar War
Endgame
After the Fall
The Wounds Within
The Spectre of Vietnam
The Endless War
Uneasy Relations
A Pronunciation Guide for Vietnamese Words
Tables
Glossary
Chronology of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam, 1942-1975
Bibliography
Books
Articles
Documents
Archival and Unpublished Sources
Literature: Poetry, Novels, Novelistic Memoirs, Novelistic Journalism
Television Documentaries and Television Programs
Films
Vietnam Websites
Index
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