Legacy of Discord : Voices of the Vietnam War Era

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Twenty-eight years have passed since the fall of Saigon. We still seek answers to the era's pressing issues. And those who were responsible for planning the Vietnam War, those who fought in it, those who fought against it, and those who reported it have had ample time to reflect on its meaning and on their personal involvement. In Legacy of Discord, skilled interviewer Gil Dorland discusses serious, unresolved issues with Peter Arnett, Mike Davison, Daniel Ellsberg, Gloria Emerson, Alexander Haig, David Halberstam, Tom Hayden, Le Ly Hayslip, Roger Hilsman, John Kerry, Henry Kissinger, Cau Le, Barry McCaffrey, John McCain, H. R. McMaster, Tom Polgar, Norman Schwarzkopf, Jim Webb, and William C. Westmoreland. For the many veterans, students, and others still seeking to understand this great national tragedy, Legacy of Discord will be a book of historic importance.

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People's War People's Army: The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped Countries

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Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia's most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam's army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many "just wars of national liberation." This volume stresses the climate of Asia, Africa, and Latin American, torn today by anticolonial, economic, and political upheavals. It is General Giap's purpose in this book, originally published in 1962, to guide these struggles to the desired "socialist" victory. The speeches and essays that comprise this key document provide not only the tactical doctrine for effective insurgency operations, but also the political guidelines for enlisting the people in the insurgents' side.

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The Adventures of ''Woody'' Walker, Attorney, Farmer, World War II Soldier

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Here in Woody Walker's own words is the story of the success of one American in spite of setbacks and failures. But due to his hard work and the hard work of his wife, both have achieved joint success. His hard work is illustrated in his Poultry Reviews, written at the age of eleven; his determination to obtain a college degree without funding; and his determination to establish a solo law practice in a major metropolitan area. It is also a story of the adventures of one American whose life is intertwined with American history during the Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war period. You will find interest in his close calls with death from a very young child up to the present time.

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How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

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From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders—whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed intelligence . . . or just a really stupid idea to begin with.

• Alexander invades India—and ends up in deep vindaloo.
• Sacre bleu! The French are humiliated by Prussia in 1870.
• spain's "invincible navy" breaks up off the coast of britain while attempting an invasion.
• the mau mau rebellion against the british in kenya shows us how not to run an insurgency.
• Chiang Kai-Shek's pathetic army fails to keep Mao's Communists from grabbing China.

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Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War

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Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, author Martin Yant argued in a newspaper column that Saddam Hussein's 'military machine' wasn't nearly the menace President Bush said it was. Rather than being a well-equipped and 'battle-hardened' million-man Wehrmacht at the command of another Adolf Hitler, Yant suggested that the Iraqi army appeared to be a 'war weary', smaller, supply-short force at the command of another Manuel Noriega. When the Persian Gulf War ended in February of 1991 in the U.S. led coalition's rout of the Iraqi army, Yant set out to write "Desert Mirage" to show how the Bush administration had deliberately deceived Americans into supporting the pursuit of power disguised as the pursuit of principle - at the cost of an estimated 375,000 lives. In the process, Yant shows how the 'liberation' of Kuwait, whose occupation the Bush administration helped cause - either by ineptness or design - was merely a pretense for assertion of American power in the Middle East. Yant pieces together his convincing case from thousands of reports from dozens of sources that sporadically seeped through the administration's veil of deceit to reveal that the thunderously triumphant 'Desert Storm' was actually a deviously devised 'Desert Mirage' with far more foreboding causes and consequences than what the public could ever imagine.

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Through the Picture Tube

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AFTER THE FALL OF VIETNAM: NEW ADVENTURE NOVEL ABOUT A DRAFT DODGER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Few of us ever get to go back to the road not taken, but middle-aged draft dodger Frank Walsh does in the new novel Through the Picture Tube, by Patrick Grady. Twenty years after the end of the Viet Nam war, the man who still lives in Canada finds himself depressed and haunted - haunted by the loss of his wife, haunted by the death of his high school friend in a faraway jungle, and haunted by his own regrets. Seeking to find out what happened to his black friend, the only American killed in a village massacre, he begins an odyssey that forces him to come to grips with the moral dilemmas of war. At the same time, he finds new love with a beautiful Vietnamese woman as he unravels the mystery of really happened on that fateful day in a long-forgotten village called Bien Lai. Through the Picture Tube is a revealing study of the war we watched on television and an examination of how our lives are forever changed by the choices we make. Patrick Grady is an American draft dodger who still lives in Canada. His own experiences were chronicled in James Dickerson's book, North To Canada: Men and Women Against the Viet Nam War.

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American Literature In Belgium.(Costerus NS 66) (Costerus New Series)

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