Where the Domino Fell America and Vietnam 1945 - 2010

Name: Where the Domino Fell America and Vietnam 1945 - 2010
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ISBN: 9781444350500

ISBN-10: 1444350501

ISBN-13: 9781444350500

Edition: 6th 2014

Authors: James S. Olson, Randy W. Roberts

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This updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions. Revised and updated to include an examination of Vietnam through the point of view of the soldiers themselves, and brings the story up to the present day through a look at how the war has been memorialized A new final chapter examines Vietnam through the lens of Oliver Stone's films and opens up a discussion of the War in popular culture Written with brevity and clarity, this concise narrative history of the Vietnam…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: LBJ and Vietnam



Eternal War: The Vietnamese Heritage



The First Indochina War, 1945-1954



The Making of a Quagmire, 1954-1960



The New Frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963



Planning a Tragedy, 1963-1965



Into the Abyss, 1965-1966



The Mirage of Progress, 1966-1967



Tet and the Year of the Monkey, 1968



The Beginning of the End, 1969-1970



The Fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975



Distorted Images, Missed Opportunities, 1975-1995



Oliver Stone's Vietnam


Selected Bibliography


A Vietnam War Chronology


Glossary and Guide to Acronyms


Index


Maps



Indochina, 1995



Vietnam, 1945 to 1975



Major battles of the Tet offensive, January 1968