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Vietnam : An American Ordeal
ISBN: 9780131925885 | 0131925881
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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Vietnam: An American Ordeal provides a comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam which are either conventional, diplomatic or military histories this text synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement. It explains why Americans tried so hard for so long to stop the spread of Communism in Indochina, and why they ultimately failed.
| (Note: Each chapter concludes with Notes.) | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Place and a People | |
| The Land | |
| The Forge of History | |
| Mission Civilisatrice | |
| Emergent Vietnamese Nationalism | |
| The Japanese Occupation | |
| Roots of American Involvement | |
| August Revolution | |
| The E... MORE | |
| Return of the French | |
| The Franco-Vietminh War | |
| The Road to Dien Bien Phu | |
| The Brink of War | |
| The Geneva Solution | |
| Lessons | |
| An Experiment in Nation Building | |
| Ngo Dinh Diem Takes Charge | |
| Social Revolution in the North | |
| Building a Nation in the South | |
| Roots of Revolution | |
| Land of a Million Elephants | |
| A Failed Experiment | |
| Raising the Stakes | |
| Cold War Crises | |
| A Limited Partnership | |
| Social Revolution in the South | |
| The Decline and Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem | |
| A Failed Partnership | |
| America Goes to War | |
| The Same Only More | |
| Coup Season | |
| In Dubious Battle | |
| The Election of 1964 | |
| Rolling Thunder | |
| Dahlias and Gladioli | |
| Americanizing the War | |
| A Chain of Thunders | |
| The Concept of Limited War | |
| War of Attrition | |
| Search and Destroy | |
| La Drang: The Battle that Transformed a War | |
| A Wider War | |
| Thunder from the Air | |
| Aerial Attrition Warfar | |
| The Other War | |
| Diplomatic Charades | |
| War at Home | |
| Year of the Monkey | |
| Surprise Attack! | |
| Stalemate | |
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