Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

Zusatztext "This story, 'The Vietnam Wars,' this terrible history is told with such clarity and passion, detail, intelligence it's hard to stop reading. The tension in the writing keeps your sadness in some kind of check as you read about opportunities for peace lost again and again, and think of today's newspapers and how we are, with some differences, modification, and more firepower, once again half the world away confusing credibility with honor." Klappentext The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. Zusammenfassung "This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement--meticulously documented, excitingly narrated, written with grace, wit, and passion."– Howard Zinn "This terrible history is told with such clarity and passion, detail, intelligence it's hard to stop reading. The tension in the writing keeps your sadness in some kind of check as you read about opportunities for peace lost again and again, and think of today's newspapers and how we are, with some differences, modification, and more firepower, once again half the world away confusing credibility with honor." – Grace Paley In this remarkably researched account of the American and Vietnamese political and diplomatic sides of the Vietnam War, Marilyn Young offers some correctives to pervasive myths that surround the conflicts leading up to the first clashes, pertaining to popular terms found in American rhetoric when discussing "the enemy," and the impact of American interference in foreign affairs.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Young
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.1991
• EAN: 9780060921071
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092107-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: Military / United States, HISTORY: Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY: MILITARY, HISTORY: United States / State & Local / General, HISTORY: Modern / General, HISTORY: Asia / General, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War