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Vietnam, an American ordeal / George Donelson Moss.
LIBRA DS557.7 .M66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, George, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Relations.
- Vietnam--History--1945-1975.
- Vietnam.
- History.
- Vietnam--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--Vietnam.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 529 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book provides a comprehensive narrative history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, from 1942 to 1975 -- with a concluding section that traces U.S.-Vietnam relations from the end of the war in 1975 to the present. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam -- which are either conventional diplomatic or military histories -- this volume synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement. It explains why Americans tried so hard for so long to stop the spread of Communism into Indochina, and why they failed. The Fall of Saigon: The End as Prelude. Vietnam: A Place and a People. The Elephant and the Tiger. An Experiment in Nation Building. Raising the Stakes. Going to War. The Chain of Thunders. The Year of the Monkey. A War to End a War. The End of the Tunnel.
- Contents:
- 1 Vietnam: A Place and a People 1
- The Land 1
- The Forge of History 4
- The French Colonial Era 10
- The Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism 15
- The Japanese Occupation 19
- The Roots of American Involvement 23
- The August Revolution 25
- 2 The Elephant and the Tiger 34
- The French Return 34
- The Franco-Vietminh War 41
- The Franco-American Partnership 46
- The Road to Dien Bien Phu 55
- To the Brink of War 62
- The Geneva Solution 65
- Lessons 70
- 3 An Experiment in Nation Building 79
- Ngo Dinh Diem Takes Charge 79
- Social Revolution 89
- Building a Nation 94
- The Roots of Revolution 102
- The Land of a Million Elephants 109
- A Failed Experiment 111
- 4 Raising the Stakes 118
- Cold War Crises 118
- A Limited Partnership 126
- Social Revolution in the South 129
- The Decline and Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem 137
- A Failed Partnership 146
- 5 America Goes to War 156
- The Same Only More 156
- Coup Season 160
- In Dubious Battles 165
- The Election of 1964 174
- Rolling Thunder 176
- Dahlias and Gladioli 185
- Decisions to Wage an American War 193
- 6 The Chain of Thunders 205
- The Concept of Limited War 205
- War of Attrition 209
- Search and Destroy 213
- The Battle that Changed the War 215
- A Wider War 219
- Thunder from the Air 230
- Aerial Attrition Warfare 237
- The Other War 241
- Diplomatic Charades 249
- War at Home 253
- 7 The Year of the Monkey 273
- Surprise Attack! 273
- Political Crisis 285
- Johnson Agonistes 292
- The Televised War 305
- Talking and Fighting 309
- The Election of 1968 319
- 8 A War to End a War 333
- Nixon and Kissinger 333
- Vietnamization 337
- An Army in Decline 353
- Widening the War: Cambodia 357
- Widening the War: Laos 369
- War Weariness 373
- The Nguyen Hue Offensive 378
- Neither Peace Nor Honor 390
- 9 The End of the Tunnel 410
- Indecent Interval 410
- Homecoming 412
- The Postwar War 415
- Endgame 421
- After the Fall 435
- The Wounds Within 440
- The Spectre of Vietnam 444
- The Endless War 447
- Uneasy Relations 449.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-520) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0130600334
- OCLC:
- 47224438
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