America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (Fourth Edition)
Comprehensive yet concise, America’s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify America’s involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam. While it...
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Comprehensive yet concise, America’s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify America’s involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam. While it focuses on the American side of the equation, it provides sufficient consideration of the Vietnamese side to make the events comprehensible.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780072536188 (0072536187)
Publish date: November 15th 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
Pages no: 397
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
20th Century,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
Military History,
Textbooks
The Vietnam War was an unconventional war that lasted, as many believe, for ten years. The case can be made that the war started much earlier than that and for the American government it was a slow increase in military activity and military spending over decades rather than a explosive beginning to ...
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