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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900
Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam? What led US policy
makers to become convinced that Vietnam posed a threat to American
interests? In The Road to Vietnam, Pablo de Orellana traces the
origins of the US-Vietnam War back to 1945-1948 and the diplomatic
relations fostered in this period between the US, France and
Vietnam, during the First Vietnam War that pitted imperial France
against the anti-colonial Vietminh rebel alliance. With specific
focus on the representation of the parties involved through the
processes of diplomatic production, the book examines how the
groundwork was laid for the US-Vietnam War of the 60's and 70's.
Examining the France-Vietminh conflict through poststructuralist
and postcolonial lenses, de Orellana reveals the processes by which
the US and France built up the perception of Vietnam as a communist
threat. Drawing on archival diplomatic texts, the representation of
political identity between diplomatic actors is examined as a cause
leading up to American involvement in the First Vietnam War, and
will be sure to interest scholars in the fields of fields of
diplomatic studies, international relations, diplomatic history and
Cold War history.
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Kapaun's Battle
(Paperback)
Jeff Gress; Edited by Faye Elaine Walker, Ian William Gorman
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General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World
War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of
the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When
World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth,
Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command possessed 4004 combat
aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft and 922 transports. After
being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur
and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial
presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to
push back the Japanese Air Force, re-take the Philippines, and
carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Following the end of
World War II, MacArthur was the highest military and political
authority in Japan and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June
1950 he was named as Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command. In
the ten months of his command, his Far East Air Forces increased
dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters.
Written by award-winning aviation historian Bill Yenne, this
engrossing and widely acclaimed book traces the journey of American
air forces in the Pacific under General MacArthur's command, from
their lowly beginnings to their eventual triumph over Imperial
Japan, followed by their entry into the jet age in the skies over
Korea.
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