Ghosts of War in Vietnam, Kwon

Автор: Lucks Daniel S.
Название: Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
ISBN: 0813145074 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813145075
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took precedence over civil rights legislation, which had dominated White House and congressional attention during the first half of the decade. The two issues became intertwined on January 6, 1966, when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) became the first civil rights organization to formally oppose the war, protesting the injustice of drafting African Americans to fight for the freedom of the South Vietnamese people when they were still denied basic freedoms at home. Selma to Saigon explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Before the war gained widespread attention, the New Left, the SNCC, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) worked together to create a biracial alliance with the potential to make significant political and social gains in Washington. Contention over the war, however, exacerbated preexisting generational and ideological tensions that undermined the coalition, and Lucks analyzes the causes and consequences of this disintegration. This powerful narrative illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on the lives of leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other activists who faced the threat of the military draft along with race-related discrimination and violence. Providing new insights into the evolution of the civil rights movement, this book fills a significant gap in the literature about one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

Автор: Ronald B. Frankum Jr.
Название: The Vietnam War For Dummies
ISBN: 0764554808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764554803
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The Vietnam War was unlike any war the United States ever fought. Unlike the previous wars of the twentieth century, the Vietnam War left the United States divided, and it continues to influence U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Without question, the Vietnam Syndrome that emerged aft the war's end altered the policies of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and the lessons learned from the war were applied to later conflicts in the Persian Gulf. The Vietnam War story is one that has never been fully understood and probably never will be explained to the satisfaction of those who experienced it - and it will continue to spark debate and controversy for each new generation. The Vietnam War For Dummies attempts to tell that complicated story in a way that is easily accessible to everyone. If you've never read much about the Vietnam War, this book provides a general overview that covers all the major players and significant turning points and events of the war. If you're a history buff, this book can serve as a compact reference guide to the major subjects of the war. The Vietnam War For Dummies covers the following topics and more: * The events that led up to the war, from the beginning of the Cold War to when U.S. troops moved into Vietnam * A detailed examination of the conflict between North and South Vietnam * How U.S. presidents handled Vietnam, from Eisenhower to Nixon * Analyses of the major battles of the war, including the Tet Offensives and the Fall of Saigon * The effect of the war on American life and culture, including an exploration of the protest movement * Thorough analyses of U.S. and Vietnamese battle tactics * Top Ten lists debunking myths surrounding the war and highlighting issues and concerns that have arisen from the war Remember that having an understanding of the Vietnam War means knowing that its history is based on perspectives. For any one book that argues a point a specific way, at least two other books will interpret that point another way. You can use The Vietnam War For Dummies as a guide for beginning your examination of one of the most important events in U.S. history.

Автор: Espiritu Yen Le
Название: Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
ISBN: 0520277716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520277717
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Описание: Examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities.

Автор: Lair Meredith H.
Название: Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
ISBN: 1469619032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469619033
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Описание: Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other "comforts" share the frame with combat.To address a tenuous morale situation, military authorities, Lair reveals, wielded abundance to insulate soldiers - and, by extension, the American public - from boredom and deprivation, making the project of war perhaps easier and certainly more palatable. The result was dozens of overbuilt bases in South Vietnam that grew more elaborate as the war dragged on. Relying on memoirs, military documents, and G.I. newspapers, Lair finds that consumption and satiety, rather than privation and sacrifice, defined most soldiers' Vietnam deployments. Abundance quarantined the U.S. occupation force from the impoverished people it ostensibly had come to liberate, undermining efforts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" and burdening veterans with disappointment that their wartime service did not measure up to public expectations. With an epilogue that finds a similar paradigm at work in Iraq, Armed with Abundance offers a unique and provocative perspective on modern American warfare.

Автор: Fry Joseph A.
Название: The American South and the Vietnam War: Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie
ISBN: 0813161045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813161044
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Описание: To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation`s commitment to the war, in the conflict`s duration, and in the fighting itself.

Автор: Daddis Gregory
Название: Westmoreland`s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
ISBN: 0190231467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190231460
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This groundbreaking study offers a major reinterpretation of American strategy during the first half of the Vietnam War. Gregory A. Daddis argues senior military leaders developed a comprehensive campaign strategy, one not confined to `attrition` of enemy forces. This innovative work is a must for a genuine understanding of the Vietnam War.

Автор: Asselin Pierre
Название: Hanoi`s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
ISBN: 0520287495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520287495
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Описание: Basing on inaccessible Vietnamese materials as well as French, British, Canadian, and American documents, this book examines the internal debates and other elements that shaped Hanoi`s revolutionary strategy in the decade preceding US military intervention, and resulting domestic and foreign programs.

Автор: Park Josphine Nock
Название: Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature
ISBN: 0190257679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190257675
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Drawing on epochal films such as The Manchurian Candidate and Samuel Fuller`s Steel Helmet, in addition to landmark literature by the likes of Richard Kim, Chang-rae Lee, Susan Choi, Le Ly Hayslip, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam.