Death In Saigon
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Death In Saigon
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Author : Ron Steinman
language : en
Publisher: KCM Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-12
Death In Saigon written by Ron Steinman and has been published by KCM Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-12 with Fiction categories.
The Death And Funeral Of Ho Chi Minh
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Death And Funeral Of Ho Chi Minh written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
A Death In November
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Author : Ellen Joy Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1988
A Death In November written by Ellen Joy Hammer and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with United States categories.
Centering on the events of 1963 in Vietnam that led to the assassinations of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, Ellen Hammer's riveting in-depth study demonstrates how this military coup transformed the Vietnam War into an American war. Having visited the embattled nation many times during the period and having interviewed key characters in the drama, she chronicles the series of misunderstandings between Vietnam and representatives of Western societies that preceded the events of 1963. Hammer's compelling account will provide readers with a fuller understanding of American involvement in Vietnam.
Death Of A Generation
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Author : Howard Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-06
Death Of A Generation written by Howard Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-06 with History categories.
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of enduring controversy. Now, based on convincing new evidence--including a startling revelation about the Kennedy administration's involvement in the assassination of Premier Diem--Howard Jones argues that Kennedy intended to withdraw the great bulk of American soldiers and pursue a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Vietnam. Drawing upon recently declassified hearings by the Church Committee on the U.S. role in assassinations, newly released tapes of Kennedy White House discussions, and interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and others from the president's inner circle, Jones shows that Kennedy firmly believed that the outcome of the war depended on the South Vietnamese. In the spring of 1962, he instructed Secretary of Defense McNamara to draft a withdrawal plan aimed at having all special military forces home by the end of 1965. The "Comprehensive Plan for South Vietnam" was ready for approval in early May 1963, but then the Buddhist revolt erupted and postponed the program. Convinced that the war was not winnable under Diem's leadership, President Kennedy made his most critical mistake--promoting a coup as a means for facilitating a U.S. withdrawal. In the cruelest of ironies, the coup resulted in Diem's death followed by a state of turmoil in Vietnam that further obstructed disengagement. Still, these events only confirmed Kennedy's view about South Vietnam's inability to win the war and therefore did not lessen his resolve to reduce the U.S. commitment. By the end of November, however, the president was dead and Lyndon Johnson began his campaign of escalation. Jones argues forcefully that if Kennedy had not been assassinated, his withdrawal plan would have spared the lives of 58,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese. Written with vivid immediacy, supported with authoritative research, Death of a Generation answers one of the most profoundly important questions left hanging in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's death. Death of a Generation was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.
The Summer Ho Chi Minh Died
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Author : Kitrell Andis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-03-22
The Summer Ho Chi Minh Died written by Kitrell Andis and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-22 with categories.
In the summer of 1969, as America's intervention in Vietnam moves toward its ugly climax in Southeast Asia and it's even uglier corruption of the home-front commonweal, a group of young boys and girls in a small midwestern town find themselves faced with an existential crisis generations in the making. The narrator Joe and his friends Frank, Benny, Dallas, Moon Man, Tina and Carol, though barely conscious of the larger picture, are all nevertheless sucked into a vortex of self-delusion, betrayal and violent tragedy.
Valley Of Death
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Author : Ted Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-02-23
Valley Of Death written by Ted Morgan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with History categories.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement’s rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated. Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come. Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.
The Battle Of Saigon
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Author : Ngo The Vinh
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005
The Battle Of Saigon written by Ngo The Vinh and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
Ngo The Vinh was an ARVN Airborne Ranger M.D. during the Vietnam War. This author, winner of the 1971 National Prize for Literature for his novel The Green Belt, ironically was also penalized for his writing, when he was summoned to the court of law because of the title story of this collection: "The Battle of Saigon". This short story records the spiritual journey of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hardship in the struggle for freedom of South Vietnam, a soldier who at the same time longs for a better society in the future. For the contents of this work, Ngo The Vinh was accused of using the press to circulate arguments that were deemed detrimental to public order, that militated against the discipline and fighting spirit of the army, a collective of which he himself was a member. Like the title story, the other eleven works in this collection, half of them created before and the other half after 1975, present war and post-war traumatic experiences and dreams from the perspective of Vietnamese Diaspora. "The Battle of Saigon" has never ended and also will never end. The reality turns out to be that a writer possesses no power other than a sensitive heart that foresees in whole the Collective Pain. Everyone should read "The Battle of Saigon", and re-read it in order to reduce to some extent the cruelty and ruthlessness of the battle prevailing at present in Saigon, even in Hanoi, in the Central Highlands, in each of us here, overseas Vietnamese residing in the United States of America. -- Phan Nhat Nam, author of The Prisoners of War
The Democratic Republic Of Vietnam Since The Death Of Ho Chi Minh
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Author : William S. Turley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Democratic Republic Of Vietnam Since The Death Of Ho Chi Minh written by William S. Turley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Vietnam categories.
A Saigon Journal Inside Television S First War
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Author : Ron Steinman
language : en
Publisher: KCM Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10-01
A Saigon Journal Inside Television S First War written by Ron Steinman and has been published by KCM Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
A Saigon Journal, Inside Television’s First War, recounts Ron Steinman’s tenure as bureau chief for NBC News in Saigon. It is an intimate and deeply personal recounting of many of the Vietnam War’s most difficult and harrowing days. These include the huge American buildup of troops, the famous hill battles in the Central Highlands, heavy fighting along the DMZ, the siege of Khe Sanh, riots against the government in the streets, Buddhist monks burning themselves to death in protest of the government and the Tet Offensive, the centerpiece of the book, when Hanoi attempted to take over South Vietnam but failed. The book also recounts the personal story of Steinman’s romance with Josephine Tu Ngoc Suong, his future wife, and her near fatal accidental shooting. During this period television news learned to cover the war with correspondents and camera crews working alongside the troops, giving people at home an intimate view of what war was really like. Dubbed the living room war, people at home watched it unfold on TV over dinner and in their living rooms, something, until then that had not been possible.
Independence Of Death
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Author : David G. Marr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Independence Of Death written by David G. Marr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.