Vietnam War Books
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Shadow on the White House
Examines how the issue of the Vietnam War shaped the leadership of six presidents, and vice versa. Focusing on the personalities, politics, priorities and actions of the presidents, the contributors consider the expansion of presidential power in...
War and Nature
This book takes a comprehensive look at the environmental costs of wars around the world since the end of World War II, drawing on case studies from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Africa, and other regions. The inherent dangers of war zones constrain...
Peace and War: International Relations 1943-1991
This new edition of Superpower Relations and Vietnam 1945-1990 has been fully revised to support the content and assessment requirements of three sections in unit 1 of...
Vietnam 1946: How the War Began
Tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Taking us from the antechambers of policymakers in Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and ...
Witness
Cameron became the first normal, ordinarily objective, ordinarily sceptic Western correspondent to enter the Peoples's Republic of Vietnam on his own terms. This book deals with his visit at the time of the war's escalation, with the American bombs falling and the threat of even greater trouble hanging in the air. This book is a 1st edition with a clean and tight text block. The boards are unmarked. The dust jacket is unclipped , just displaying some bumping and chipping to top and bottom edges.
The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq
This report finds parallels in U.S. prisoner and detainee operations in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq: underestimation of the number to be held, hasty...
Understanding Power
Assembles the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power. In a series of wide-ranging discussions, this work radically reinterprets the events, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the...
Heinemann Advanced History: Vietnam, Korea and US Foreign Policy 1945-75
Written for the Edexcel specification, this in-depth A2 study looks at the US relationship with South East Asia in the context of the Cold War. Emphasis is placed on the roles of Johnson and Nixon which are both heavily covered in the exams and...
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
* This fascinating book tells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the injustices of capitalist society, turned to bombings, kidnappings and murder
Vietnam at War
One of the first books to look at how the Vietnamese themselves experienced the wars for Vietnam, including both the French and the American wars. Combining political, social, and cultural history, Bradley examines how the war was seen both by top...
Compassionate Photographer: Burrows, Larry: 1st edition
Produced by the Editors of LIFE to celebrate the work of Larry Burrows, war photographer. Half of the book is devoted to the photographer's work in Vietnam, but the other half shows the enormous range of a man who was both a journalist and an artist - from the immemorial beauty of Angkor Wat and the Taj Mahal to the bizarre humour of a horde of Japanese fishermen. In everything, the compassionate touch of humanity shows through. A collection of b/w and colour full-page photographs with brief captions and a number of descriptive paragraphs. 12" x 10". Published 1972 by Time Inc. Very good, clean condition throughout: yellow cloth boards slightly marked: slipcase soiled and slightly bumped.
A Rumor Of War
In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to gith in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, 'This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them'. It is far more then that. It is, a Theodore Solotaroff wrote in the New York Times Book Review, 'the troubled conscience of America speaking passionately, truthfully, finally'. It is the book that shattered America's deliberate indifference to the fact of the men it sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam, and in the years since it was first published it has become a basic text on that war. But in the literature of war that stretches back to Homer, it has also taken its place as an esteemed classic to rank alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead.
A Rumor of War
In 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. After 16 months he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his idealism shattered. This story is about the...
Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam
Navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer was one of approximately six thousand military nurses who served in Vietnam. This title delves into the experiences of fifteen nurse...