Our Vietnam
The War 1954-1975
Laos was never really ours after 1954. South Vietnam is and wants to be. -- McGeorge Bundy, Washington, D.C., 1961The Americans thought that Vietnam was a war. We knew that Vietnam was our country.-- Luu Doan Huynh, Hanoi, 1999Twenty-five years after its end, with many records and archives newly opened and many participants now willing to testify, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth has written an authoritative, news-making account of the Vietnam War from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives.Our Vietnam is a sweeping and evenhanded history of the Vietnam War as it was lived by U.S. presidents in Washington and Communist leaders i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7432-1244-1
- EAN: 9780743212441
- Produktnummer: 14619198
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 768 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 919 KB
Über den Autor
A. J. Langguth (1933-2014) was the author of eight books of nonfiction and three novels. After Lincoln marks his fourth book in a series that began in 1988 with Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. He served as a Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times, after covering the Civil Rights movement for the newspaper. Langguth taught for three decades at the University of Southern California and retired in 2003 as emeritus professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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