The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam Review
The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam Feature
Examines the strategic failures of the military's leadership and whether a different policy could have avoided America's defeat in Vietnam.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Migs over North Vietnam: The Vietnam People's Air Force in Combat, 1965-75 (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)
Migs over North Vietnam: The Vietnam People's Air Force in Combat, 1965-75 (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series) Review
Migs over North Vietnam: The Vietnam People's Air Force in Combat, 1965-75 (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series) Feature
Until now, the day-to-day operations of the Vietnamese People's Air Force have remained relatively unknown. Roger Boniface gives voice to Vietnamese pilots whose stories have never before been told, from their view of the gradual escalation of the conflict to their version of events seen differently by American aviators and historians.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War
Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War Review
Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War Feature
More than thirty years later, the Vietnam War still stands as one of the most controversial events in the history of the United States, and historians have so far failed to come up with a definitive narrative of the wartime experience. With competing viewpoints already in play, Mark Moyar’s recent revisionist approach in Triumph Forsaken has created heated debate over who "owns" the history of America’s war in Vietnam.
Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War collects critiques of Triumph Forsaken from both sides of this debate, written by an array of Vietnam scholars, cataloguing arguments about how the war should be remembered, how history may be reconstructed, and by whom. A lively introduction and conclusion by editors Andrew Wiest and Michael Doidge provide context and balance to the essays, as well as Moyar’s responses, giving students and scholars of the Vietnam era a glimpse into how history is constructed and reconstructed.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam, 1959-1975
Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam, 1959-1975 Review
Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam, 1959-1975 Feature
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History Review
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History Feature
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels between that conflict and more recent fighting in the Middle East. In The Vietnam War, Mark Atwood Lawrence draws upon the latest research in archives around the world to offer readers a superb account of a key moment in U.S. as well as global history.
While focusing on American involvement between 1965 and 1975, Lawrence offers an unprecedentedly complete picture of all sides of the war, notably by examining the motives that drove the Vietnamese communists and their foreign allies. Moreover, the book carefully considers both the long- and short-term origins of the war. Lawrence examines the rise of Vietnamese communism in the early twentieth century and reveals how Cold War anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s set the United States on the road to intervention. Of course, the heart of the book covers the "American war," ranging from the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem to the impact of the Tet Offensive on American public opinion, Lyndon Johnson's withdrawal from the 1968 presidential race, Richard Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos, and the problematic peace agreement of 1973, which ended American military involvement. Finally, the book explores the complex aftermath of the war--its enduring legacy in American books, film, and political debate, as well as Vietnam's struggles with severe social and economic problems.
A compact and authoritative primer on an intensely relevant topic, this well-researched and engaging volume offers an invaluable overview of the Vietnam War.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America
A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America Review
A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America Feature
A memoir by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, Quang Pham’s A Sense of Duty is an affecting story of fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war the United States has ever fought. This heartfelt salute to the spirit of America is also the account of the author’s reunion with his long-absent father, Hoa Pham, himself a devoted officer who saw combat firsthand as a South Vietnamese fighter pilot. Hoa’s revelations about his wartime experience leave Quang even more conflicted about his service in the Marines in the first Gulf War, and after years of struggling to reconnect with each other and the homeland they left behind, the two set out on a final, profound quest—to make sense of the war in Vietnam.
Tracing Quang Pham’s uniquely spirited yet agonizing journey from his experiences as an uprooted refugee to his becoming a combat aviator, A Sense of Duty reveals the turmoil of a family torn apart and reunited by the fortunes of war. It is an American journey like no other.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
How North Won the Vietnam War
How North Won the Vietnam War Review
How North Won the Vietnam War Feature
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