Triumph Revisited - Historians Battle for the Vietnam War

Zusatztext "[T]he book provides! in a relatively brief format! an excellent introduction to! and overview of! the major controversies and conflicts in the historiography of the early years of the Vietnam War ... Recommended" - Choice"In Triumph Revisited! Wiest and Doidge have collected Moyar's critics (and there are many) to explain why the standard explanations for the United States' failure in Vietnam-its exaggerated Cold War fears! its hopeless client! and its incoherent strategy-remain compelling. Moyar is allowed a spirited defense. The collection demonstrates the importance of debate as a way of illuminating important issues and questioning established positions." - Foreign Affairs Informationen zum Autor Andrew Wiest is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN and co-editor of America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Routledge). Michael J. Doidge is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently writing his dissertation, An Army Worth Fighting For: Doctrinal, Strategic, and Bureaucratic Transformation in the U.S. Army from 1946-1964 . Klappentext First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Collects critiques of Triumph Forsaken and catalogues arguments about how the war should be remembered, how history may be reconstructed, and by whom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Dennis Showalter Introduction: Historians and the Vietnam War by Andrew Wiest Section 1. The Vietnam War in an Asian Perspective Section 2. Debating Triumph Forsaken as History Section 3. Orthodoxy and Revisionism Conclusion by Michael Doidge Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Andrew (University of Southern Mississippi Wiest
• Assisted by: Michael Doidge (Editor), Doidge Michael (Editor), Andrew Wiest (Editor), Wiest Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2010
• EAN: 9780415800204
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80020-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; USA, Vietnam, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Military / United States, Historiography, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General