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Informationen zum Autor Born in Korea just right before the Korean War. Majored physics and served Navy as an officer. Immigrated to America for about 40 years ago. Likes playing piano and many musical instruments. Einstein is his most favorite person and like Beethoven for his music. Likes to play moonlight piano sonata. He spends most of his time with his wife and cannot live without her help because she manages his life. Now running a screen printing, engraving and promotional product business in Washington. Likes to talk about Jesus and the life. The daily life now is exercising and playing piano, violin, cycling, taking care of the front and backyard with his wife together always. Klappentext A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. These historiographical and narrative essays by leading historians examine the war in its most important contexts. The broad thematic coverage of the book includes the political strategy of three American presidents, the American military tactics and their consequences, the adjoining wars in Laos and Cambodia, the American home front and antiwar movement, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in both America and Vietnam. This volume represents the best current scholarship on one of the most controversial and influential episodes in modern American history. It also contains an expanded bibliography of hundreds of secondary sources to guide further research. For students, scholars, and general readers of Vietnam War studies, this Companion is a vital resource. Zusammenfassung A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. * Highlights issues of nationalism! culture! gender! and race. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Contributors viii Introduction xi 1 Hanoi's Long Century 1 Stein Tonnesson PART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 17 2 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19 William Duiker 3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37 Christopher E. Goscha 4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65 Shaun Malarney 5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79 David Hunt 6 "Vietnam" as a Women's War 93 Karen G. Turner PART 11 THE AMERICANS IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT 113 7 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations 115 Anne Foster 8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130 Mark Bradley 9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146 Robert K. Bridham 10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162 Edwin E. Moise 11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174 Robert Buzzanco 12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198 Kenton Clymer 13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229 Lloyd Gardner 14 Remembering Nixon's War 260 Carolyn Eisenberg 15 America's Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283 Alfred W McCoy PART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 315 16 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317 Bruce Franklin 17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333 James Westheider 18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348 George Mariscal 19 "They'll Forgive You fo...
