Why We Were In Vietnam
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Why We Were In Vietnam
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Author : Norman Podhoretz
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1982
Why We Were In Vietnam written by Norman Podhoretz and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
Norman Podhoretz retells the story of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam and how and why it was driven out. Highlighting the major turning points of the war, Podhoretz takes us on a fascinating journey through the entire series of ideas, policies and decisions that led to America's escalating involvement and eventual defeat. He also reviews the ideas of people who called those decisions immoral or criminal, as well as the arguments of those who at first supported the war and then turned against it. (from book jacket)
Where We Were In Vietnam
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Author : Michael Kelley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Where We Were In Vietnam written by Michael Kelley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Military bases - Vietnam - Dictionaries categories.
Widely considered the definitive resource on the Vietnam War, Where We Were identifies the name, location and provides a brief historical synopsis of every military installation, firebase, landing zone, airfield, port, signal site, vessel and significant terrain feature of the American war in Vietnam. Additionally, includes a substantial number from the French War as well. Coverage includes all of Indochina. Currently features over 12,000 entries. Also includes an extensive appendix of Vietnam War research and map guidelines/resources.
Why Are We In Vietnam
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-08-05
Why Are We In Vietnam written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-05 with Fiction categories.
When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality. Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
Why Were We There
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Author : Jack Morgan (Private investigator)
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Release Date : 2014
Why Were We There written by Jack Morgan (Private investigator) and has been published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Marines categories.
This is a story of an 18-year-old, all-American kid who thought he was doing the right thing by going to Vietnam to save democracy. After eleven months of combat and two purple hearts, he finally experienced the realization of why we should have never been in the Vietnam War and why we were really there. Why Were We There? tells all about boot camp, infantry training, and what it was like to be in Vietnam in a Marine Infantry Unit. The reader will get a close look at what it was like to serve as a soldier. Questions that have been in your mind will be answered in this book about a boy from Ohio who must turn too quickly into a man.
Embers Of War
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Author : Fredrik Logevall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Embers Of War written by Fredrik Logevall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with History categories.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARS Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • The Globe and Mail Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France’s final years in Indochina—and shows how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history. An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another. Eye-opening and compulsively readable, Embers of War is a gripping, heralded work that illuminates the hidden history of the French and American experiences in Vietnam. Praise for Embers of War “A balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.”—Pulitzer Prize citation “This extraordinary work of modern history combines powerful narrative thrust, deep scholarly authority, and quiet interpretive confidence.”—Francis Parkman Prize citation “A monumental history . . . a widely researched and eloquently written account of how the U.S. came to be involved in Vietnam . . . certainly the most comprehensive review of this period to date.”—The Wall Street Journal “Superb . . . a product of formidable international research.”—The Washington Post
We Were Soldiers Once And Young
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Author : Harold G. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-11-06
We Were Soldiers Once And Young written by Harold G. Moore and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with History categories.
New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face). In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was brutally slaughtered. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. They were the first major engagements between the US Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam. How these Americans persevered—sacrificing themselves for their comrades and never giving up—creates a vivid portrait of war at its most devastating and inspiring. Lt. Gen. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway—the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting—interviewed hundreds of men who fought in the battle, including the North Vietnamese commanders. Their poignant account rises above the ordeal it chronicles to depict men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have once found unimaginable. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man’s most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
Our War
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Author : David Harris
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1996
Our War written by David Harris and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. As a consequence, he spent nearly two years in a federal prison. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation. For the past two decades, he has largely remained silent as the antiwar movement he led stood accused by critics and politicians of everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by one of the more divisive wars in America's history. Neither a history nor an autobiography, though containing aspects of both. Our War is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. It is a powerful rumination on the war, the protest movement, and America's need, even now, so many years later, for a reckoning. Our War is a one-of-a-kind look at who we were, what we did, why we did it, and what those actions made of us, seen through the eyes of a unique and significant American figure and one of our most gifted writers. Part memoir, part polemic, all passion. Our War is a disturbing book, a cry from the heart of an anguished American.
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.
On Strategy
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Author : Harry G. Summers
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 1995-06-01
On Strategy written by Harry G. Summers and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-06-01 with History categories.
Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam answers the most pressing questions remaining from that terrible conflict more than a decade before Robert McNamara's painful admissions.
Boots On The Ground
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Author : Elizabeth Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Boots On The Ground written by Elizabeth Partridge and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. The history of this era is complex; the cultural impact extraordinary. But it's the personal stories of eight people—six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee—that create the heartbeat of Boots on the Ground. From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic helicopter rescues and harrowing escapes, each individual experience reveals a different facet of the war and moves us forward in time. Alternating with these chapters are profiles of key American leaders and events, reminding us of all that was happening at home during the war, including peace protests, presidential scandals, and veterans' struggles to acclimate to life after Vietnam. With more than one hundred photographs, award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge's unflinching book captures the intensity, frustration, and lasting impacts of one of the most tumultuous periods of American history. *Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Marching for Freedom