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America in Vietnam / Guenter Lewy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewy, Guenter, 1923-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- United States--History--1945-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 540 pages) : charts, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 1 The Roots of Involvement; 2 The Big-Unit War; 3 The Failure of Attrition and Pacification; 4 Disengagement; 5 The Travail of Vietnamization; 6 Vietnamization on Trial: The Collapse of South Vietnam; 7 American Military Tactics and the Law of War; 8 Terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Genocide; 9 Atrocities: Fiction and Fact; 10 The Punishment of Atrocities and War Crimes; 11 The Bombing of North Vietnam; Epilogue: The Legacy of Vietnam; Appendix I. Civilian Casualties: A Quantitative Assessment; Appendix II. Tables and Charts; A Note on Military Records; Notes; lossary of Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12131-X
- 9786613121318
- 0-19-987423-9
- OCLC:
- 729871080
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