Vietnam 35 Years After The Fall Of Saigon
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Vietnam 35 Years After The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : Mark Zannoni
language : en
Publisher: Nacala Press
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Vietnam 35 Years After The Fall Of Saigon written by Mark Zannoni and has been published by Nacala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with categories.
Vietnam: 35 Years after the Fall of Saigon is a photo documentary of contemporary Vietnam from the perspective of the war. The legacy of the Vietnam War in America is well documented. But before this book, little existed on the topic as a comprehensive work as it relates to Vietnam itself. The volume captures cities and regions throughout the country from Hai Phong in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south, documenting the residue of the war, including MIA and unexploded ordnance (UXO) issues, and the current social, economic, and diplomatic environment to present a comprehensive view of the country today.Thirty-five years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam is a rapidly developing country yet still endures the legacies of the War. Modern cities are rising quickly, yet on old battlefields children still play with the debris of war. The economy is thriving, yet second and third generations suffer the long-term effects of chemical defoliants and the lurking presence of unexploded ordnance. And amidst the economic and social progress, government officialdom does not let its citizens forget the war as it carefully shapes a historical perspective of it.The title represents an important and timely work from many perspectives--reconciliation between former foes, a social and economic perspective of a self-proclaimed communist country that fully embraces and practices capitalism, a documentation of the political and economic development of Vietnam, and as an 'epilogue' on the Vietnam War.Vietnam: 35 Years after the Fall of Saigon provides a contemporary perspective into Vietnam, documenting the country at this unique time when the legacy of the war is still alive but is giving way to a renewed economic, diplomatic, and social order. The scars of war have not yet faded, but peace and reconciliation are steadily overtaking them.
Vietnam In America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Vietnam In America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Vietnam Since The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : William J. Duiker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Vietnam Since The Fall Of Saigon written by William J. Duiker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-27
The Fall Of Saigon written by Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-27 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the Demilitarized Zone between north and south, and bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself. In public, American military officials and members of the Johnson administration stressed their tactical successes and offered rosy predictions; speaking before the National Press Club in November 1967, General Westmoreland claimed, "I have never been more encouraged in the four years that I have been in Vietnam. We are making real progress...I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." Ripe for the plucking by North Vietnam, the country of South Vietnam found itself in an unenviable position in 1974. American forces rapidly withdrew, leaving only a few advisers and other personnel in place of the large forces deployed in the Southeast Asian theater until recently. President Gerald Ford and his staff, completely outmatched at the negotiations during the American retreat, parleyed from a position of weakness. The North Vietnamese gave essentially no useful concessions since they had no reason to, and they secured an American withdrawal without needing to remove their own advance units from South Vietnamese territory in return. Naturally, these facts reflected themselves in the morale of the two sides. South Vietnamese morale collapsed to catastrophic levels and remained there, though the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) forces occasionally managed gallant, even heroic stands. The North Vietnamese, by contrast, felt confident of victory, from the highest to the lowest ranks. A mix of Marxist zeal and barely expressed but very real nationalism strengthened the resolve of the North Vietnamese's commanders and soldiers as well. A haunting fear remained among the North Vietnamese that the Americans would return, but each fresh success with no American response made this concern recede further into the background. As 1975 dawned, the NVA prepared for a final series of campaigns to conquer the territory of South Vietnam, leading to a chain of events that culminated with the fall of Saigon and some of the most infamous footage in 20th century America's history. The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam's Capital and the End of the Vietnam War examines how the war ended.
The Real Lessons Of The Vietnam War
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Author : John Norton Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Real Lessons Of The Vietnam War written by John Norton Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, two prominent scholars, Moore and Turner (who debated in the 1960s), assembled a distinguished group of Vietnam experts at the University of Virginia to reexamine the conflict and search for its "real" lessons. This resulting volume includes contributions by senior diplomats, retired military officers, experts on Vietnamese Communism, and senior scholars of history, political science, and law. Given the diversity of the participants, the general consensus that emerges will surprise and enlighten many readers. The book corrects various myths that continue to influence American thinking about Vietnam. The idea that the U.S. military and CIA were intentionally engaged in "war crimes," such as the assassination of political opponents of the South Vietnamese government in the Phoenix Program, is laid to rest; and military legal experts address the tragic realities of My Lai and measures taken to prevent reoccurrence. It is popular today to say that Vietnam "could not have been won." The message emerging from this new study, on the contrary, is that despite some horrible blunders and incompetent political leadership at the highest levels, by 1973 the war had essentially been won. Partisan politics and mutual mistrust in Washington kept that message from reaching the right people, and a misunderstanding of public opinion prompted Congress to outlaw further U.S. military involvement--essentially snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. "The Real Lessons of the Vietnam War: Reflections Twenty-Five Years After the Fall of Saigon, edited by John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner, has a number of fine chapters... The chapter 'Internationalist Outlook of Vietnamese Communism' by Stephen J. Morris, is excellent... The chapter 'Legal Issues in the U.S. Commitment to Vietnam: A Debate' by John Norton Moore is also well worth reading... Dr. Turner provides an excellent chapter dealing with how we turned victory into defeat... Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the Director of Genocide Watch and has written a staggeringly powerful chapter that should be assigned reading for all students of American history and foreign policy, members of the press, and those serving in both the Congress and the executive branch of government." -- Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, Autumn 2003
The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : David Butler
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1985
The Fall Of Saigon written by David Butler and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
End Of The Vietnam War
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Author : Danilo Varone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-02
End Of The Vietnam War written by Danilo Varone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with categories.
In the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam is seized by communist forces, and the government of South Vietnam surrenders. U.S. Marine and Air Force helicopters transport more than 1,000 American civilians and nearly 7,000 South Vietnamese refugees out of Saigon in an 18-hour mass evacuation effort. This book is telling true stories, which were recorded by a young artillery officer of the ARVN in the wartime of the Vietnam War. April 30, 1975, this day the Vietnam War ended after more than 20 years since the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam country into two parts on July 20, 1954. The war ended prematurely and unexpectedly. It was beyond the imagination of all components of the population living in the Saigon Regime of South Vietnam at the time.
After Saigon S Fall
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Author : Amanda C. Demmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-08
After Saigon S Fall written by Amanda C. Demmer 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 2021-04-08 with History categories.
A new understanding of US policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War based on fresh archival discoveries.
They Are All My Family
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Author : John P. Riordan
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2015-04-07
They Are All My Family written by John P. Riordan and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with History categories.
Published for the fortieth anniversary of the final days of the Vietnam War, this is the suspenseful and moving tale of how John Riordan, an assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch, devised a daring plan to save 106 Vietnamese from the dangers of the Communist takeover. Riordan -- who had served in the US Army after the Tet Offensive and had left the military behind for a career in international banking -- was not the type to take dramatic action, but once the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon in April 1975 and it was clear that Riordan's Vietnamese colleagues and their families would be stranded in a city teetering on total collapse, he knew he could not leave them behind. Defying the objections of his superiors and going against the official policy of the United States, Riordan went back into Saigon to save them. In fifteen harrowing trips to Saigon's airport, he maneuvered through the bureaucratic shambles, claiming that the Vietnamese were his wife and scores of children. It was a ruse that, at times, veered close to failure, yet against all odds, the improbable plan succeeded. At great risk, the Vietnamese left their lives behind to start anew in the United States, and now John is known to his grateful Vietnamese colleagues and hundreds of their American descendants as Papa. They Are All My Family is a vivid narrative of one man's ingenious strategy which transformed a time of enormous peril into a display of extraordinary courage. Reflecting on those fateful days in this account, John Riordan's modest heroism provides a striking contrast to America's ignominious retreat from the decade of conflict.
The Fall Of Saigon
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Author : Michael V. Uschan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Fall Of Saigon written by Michael V. Uschan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
An examination of the fall of Saigon, a major historical watershed. It recounts the chain of events leading up to this event, and the repercussions, both immediate and long-term. It also evaluates the concept of a turning point, assessing in what way this event really was one. The volume is designed to be thought-provoking, but its approach is direct and seeks to embrace the views of ordinary people. It ties in with the National Curriculum and features photographs, reproductions of source materials, eyewitness boxes, and a glossary and index.