Our Vietnam Nightmare
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Our Vietnam Nightmare
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Author : Marguerite Higgins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Our Vietnam Nightmare written by Marguerite Higgins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Our Vietnam
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Author : A. J. Langguth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Our Vietnam written by A. J. Langguth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with United States categories.
Our Vietnam
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Author : A. J. Langguth
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-11-15
Our Vietnam written by A. J. Langguth and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-15 with History categories.
Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.
Fierce Ambition The Life And Legend Of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
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Author : Jennet Conant
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Fierce Ambition The Life And Legend Of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins written by Jennet Conant and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession. Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. Her headline-making exploits earned her a reputation for bravery bordering on recklessness and accusations of “advancing on her back,” trading sexual favors for scoops. While the Herald Tribune exploited her feminine appeal—regularly featuring the photogenic "girl reporter" on its front pages—it was Maggie’s dogged determination, talent for breaking news, and unwavering ambition that brought her success from one war zone to another. Her notoriety soared during the Cold War, and her daring dispatches from Korea garnered a Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence—the first granted to a woman for frontline reporting—with the citation noting the unusual dangers and difficulties she faced because of her sex. A star reporter, she became part of the Kennedy brothers’ Washington circle, though her personal alliances and politics provoked bitter feuds with male rivals, who vilified her until her untimely death. Drawing on new and extensive research, including never-before-published correspondence and interviews with Maggie’s colleagues, lovers, and soldiers and generals who knew her in the field, journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie’s rightful place in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time.
The Conflict That Was A War In Vietnam And At Home
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Author : Jim Money
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012-10-06
The Conflict That Was A War In Vietnam And At Home written by Jim Money 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 2012-10-06 with categories.
This book is a collection of 19 short stories put together by 19 Vietnam Veterans with their experiences, and their nightmare upon returning home from war. These stories capture what it was like for many of them before they entered the service; While they were in Vietnam, and what it was like to come home to a hostile social environment. These veterans from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force unlock their inner feelings that have been penned up inside for over forty years. This is your opportunity to understand what what these veterans and families have suffered through since their return. Being in combat is a life changing experience which leaves the veteran searching for his former life, a life that is gone forever. The effect of trying to stay alive, seeing friends torn up by bullets or explsives, and constantly looking over his shoulder leave scars that last forever. From the insights of what these veterans put in their stories, all of us maybe able to help our young vets returnung from war, to seek the help that is now available and for you the reader to recognize that these veterans need to be welcomed home as the heros they are.
Kill Anything That Moves
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Author : Nick Turse
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2013-01-15
Kill Anything That Moves written by Nick Turse and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with History categories.
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire Project Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
The Vietnam War Re Examined
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Vietnam War Re Examined written by Michael Kort and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
An overview of the revisionist case on the Vietnam War, showing how it could have been won by the US at a lower cost than was suffered in defeat.
Our Man
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Author : George Packer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Our Man written by George Packer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From one of America’s greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. **WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019** **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020** Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites, he was both admired and detested. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage. He was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy. But his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion ensured that he never rose to the highest levels in government that he so desperately coveted. Holbrooke’s story is the story of the rise and fall of America during its era of supremacy: its strength, drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for overreach and heedless self-confidence. Drawing on Holbrooke’s diaries and papers, George Packer’s narrative is both intimate and epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply flawed man, and the elite spheres of society and government he inhabited. A GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
Jfk And The Unspeakable
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Author : James W. Douglass
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-10-19
Jfk And The Unspeakable written by James W. Douglass and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up. Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.
Saigon
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Author : Nghia M. Vo
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-08-31
Saigon written by Nghia M. Vo and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with History categories.
Saigon (since 1976, officially Hồ Chi Minh City but widely still referred to as Saigon) is the largest metropolitan area in modern Vietnam and has long been the country's economic engine. This is the city's complete history, from its humble beginnings as a Khmer village in the swampy Mekong delta to its emergence as a major political, economic and cultural hub. The city's many transitions through the hands of the Chams, Khmers, Vietnamese, Chinese, French, Japanese, Americans, nationalists and communists are examined in detail, as well as the Saigon-led resistance to collectivization and the city's central role in Vietnam's perestroika-like economic reforms.