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Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 by Marilyn Young (1991, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060921072
ISBN-139780060921071
eBay Product ID (ePID)22448
Product Key Features
Book TitleVietnam Wars 1945-1990
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, Military / Vietnam War, General
Publication Year1991
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorMarilyn Young
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-055560
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"A first-rate synthesis of the vast literature on the Vietnam War which effectively interweaves U.S. involvement in Indochina with relevant developments on the American domestic front in a way that makes both more understandable." -- George McT. Kahin, Cornell University "Eloquent . . . A concise and effective exposition of the events of the war, and a cogent analysis of the motives underlying America's decision to make war against Vietnam.'" -- Kirkus Reviews "It is a marvelously wide-ranging and lively synthesis--unmatched in its striking juxtaposition of the Vietnamese revolution with American (old War policy and ideology and in its sensitivity to the human dimensions of the conflict on both sides. This engaged and engaging study deserves a place at the top of everyone's Vietnam reading list." -- Michael H. Hunt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "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 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." -- Grace Paley, A first-rate synthesis of the vast literature on the Vietnam War which effectively interweaves U.S. involvement in Indochina with relevant developments on the American domestic front in a way that makes both more understandable., 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., Eloquent . . . A concise and effective exposition of the events of the war, and a cogent analysis of the motives underlying America's decision to make war against Vietnam.', It is a marvelously wide-ranging and lively synthesis--unmatched in its striking juxtaposition of the Vietnamese revolution with American (old War policy and ideology and in its sensitivity to the human dimensions of the conflict on both sides. This engaged and engaging study deserves a place at the top of everyone's Vietnam reading list., 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.
Dewey Decimal959.704/3
Edition DescriptionReprint
Synopsis"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.
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- 10 Apr, 2016
The Vietnam Wars by Marilyn B. Young
The Vietnam War means something different to every interested American. Without any knowledge, Americans deny Christianity & the Living God, but likewise they deify "veterans" (A person who worked 90 days on 'active duty" somewhere [such as the PX at Fort Benning, GA, etc.], doing something, maybe sitting around or smoking dope or frequenting illicit sex facilities while being paid by the US Government in its irresponsible waste.). A US President can shoot his own lawyer 21 times in all his limbs (while killing him slowly & unmercifully), assassinate another President to take his place, & escalate the Vietnam War for America, because he owns 52% of the stock in Bell Helicopter and be called "America's Best President" by Americans without "eye spots", unable to sense light from dark. Marilyn, the author of this book, traces the Vietnam War from its origin as an enduring war for independence from Chinese oppresion that started more than 400 years before Dien Ben Phu. Dr. Young is a college professor with seniority & integrity, not sold out to the defense or intelligence industries, nor a "beltway" bandit. She consolidates this massive violent political mess, made mythological by Americans without eye spots into an stimulating, candid, & fascinating document revealing the full history & truth of over 400 years of domination by China of the freedom seeking Vietnamese people. If you don't ride a motorcycle with a leather jacket that professes you are a 'Vietnam Veteran", don't hang out at the VFW professing to be a drunken, but exceptionally well decorated veteran of a foreign war, & can accept the political facts that Americans create these purposeless wars, killing their own sons & daughters because of their pampered perpetual (sophomoric) adolescence, the same reason they deify misleading, criminal scum, like LBJ, then the book will serve the reader well. -Leonard ThomasVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Mar, 2016
so far so good it is a good read
it is a detailed history of vietnam and how ho chi minh rose to powerVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
