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Books > History > American history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > Vietnam War

The Vietnam War - Executive - Legislative Relations, Tracing the Impact of the War on U.S. Governmental Structures and Policies... The Vietnam War - Executive - Legislative Relations, Tracing the Impact of the War on U.S. Governmental Structures and Policies (Hardcover)
Walter L. Hixson
R3,081 R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Save R1,932 (63%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This six-volume collection of essential articles on the American involvement in the Vietnam Wa encompasses the political, social, and military aspects of the war.

The Vietnam War - Military Strategy and Escalation (Hardcover): Walter L. Hixson The Vietnam War - Military Strategy and Escalation (Hardcover)
Walter L. Hixson
R5,254 Discovery Miles 52 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This six-volume collection of essential articles on the American involvement in the Vietnam Wa encompasses the political, social, and military aspects of the war.

The Vietnam War - Representations, Memories, and Legacies (Hardcover): Walter L. Hixson The Vietnam War - Representations, Memories, and Legacies (Hardcover)
Walter L. Hixson
R3,940 Discovery Miles 39 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Haines, Harry W Disputing the Wreckage: Ideological Struggle at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Generation 1 [1989]
2. Wagner-Pacifici, Robin and Barry Schwartz The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating A Difficult Past, American Journal of Sociology 97 [1991]
3. Sturken, Marita The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Representations 35 [1991]
4. Jeffords, Susan Women, Gender and the War, Critical Studies in Mass Communication 6 [1989]
5. Smith, Lorrie Back Against the Wall: Anti-Feminist Backlist in Vietnam War Literature, Vietnam Generation 1 [1989]
6. Mithers, Carol Lynn Missing in Action: Women Warriors in Vietnam, Cultural Critique 3 [1986]
7. Marling, Carol Ann The Statute Near the Wall, Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1 [1987]
8. Bellhouse, Mary L and Lawrence Litchfield Vietnam and Loss of Innocence: An Analysis of the Political Implications of the Popular Literature of the Vietnam War, Journal of Popular Culture 16 [1982]
9. Uchmanowicz, Pauline Vanishing Vietnam: Whiteness and the Technology of Memory, Literature and Psychology 41 [1995]
10. Charlot, John Vietnamese Cinema: First Views, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 22 [1991]
11. Katzman, Jason From Outcast to Cliche: How Film Shaped, Warped and Developed the Image of the Vietnam Veteran, 1967-1990, Journal of American Culture 16 [1993]
12. Clark, Michael Remembering Vietnam, Cultural Critique 3 [1986]
13. Berg, Rick Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology, Cultural Critique 3 [1986]
14. Rowe, John Carlos From Documentary to Docudrama: Vietnam on Television in the 1980s, Genre 21 [1988]
15. Auster, Albert Reflections of the Way Life Used to Be: Tour of Duty, China Beach, and the memory of the Sixties, Television Quarterly 24 [1990]
16. Ballard-Reisch, Deborah China Beach and Tour of Duty: American Television and Revisionist History of The Vietnam War, Journal of Popular Culture 25 [1991]
17. Jason, Philip K The Noise is Always in My Head: Auditory Images in the Literature of the Vietnam War, Midwest Quarterly 37 [1996]

The Vietnam War - The Anti-War Movement (Hardcover): Walter L. Hixson The Vietnam War - The Anti-War Movement (Hardcover)
Walter L. Hixson
R3,081 R2,761 Discovery Miles 27 610 Save R320 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Vietnam War generated controversy long after the guns went silent in Southeast Asia. At first, a consensus emerged that the war had been a tragic 'mistake' in US foreign policy. But with the revival of the Cold War under President Ronald Reagan, who proclaimed that the Vietnam conflict had been a 'noble cause', revisionists began to reinterpret the history and meaning of the war. As a new conflict emerged in Central America, some argued that the lesson of Vietnam was to avoid direct involvement in such struggles, while others insisted that the US could not afford to be paralyzed by a 'Vietnam syndrome' equating all intervention with failure. Among the additional lessons and legacies of the war was its impact on the men who fought in Vietnam. For complex reasons, explored by authors in this volume, powerful myths about Vietnam veterans emerged in postwar American culture.

From Melos to My Lai - A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival (Paperback): Lawrence A. Tritle From Melos to My Lai - A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival (Paperback)
Lawrence A. Tritle
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, its impact on society and culture, especially as reflected from the perspective of the survivors. The survivors include not only actual combatants, but those with whom they interact: their comrades, their wives and children, families and society as a whole.
From Melos to My Lai provides a unique contribution to the study of the impact of violence on its participants and its audience which combines an examination of the artistic representations of violence and the real-life accounts of those involved in it.

From Melos to My Lai - A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival (Hardcover): Lawrence A. Tritle From Melos to My Lai - A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival (Hardcover)
Lawrence A. Tritle
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Did Ajax and Achilles ever suffer from Post-traumatic stress syndrome?


In this absorbing account, Vietnam veteran and classics scholar Lawrence A Tritle offers an incisive analysis of war and its impact upon the soldier and civilian from the classical age to the present day.
Tritle discusses the links between battlefield experiences that affect the participants and victims of war in every age, drawing examples from sources as diverse as the Iliad, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Thucydides' account of the Pelopenesian Wars, and the Oliver Stone film Platoon. Each instance sheds light on some of the most puzzling phemonena of war and shows how the heroes of epic responded to battle with their own forms of "shellshock," battle-madness and bonding. Tritle examines such issues as:


How can ordinarily decent men can commit acts of extraordinary savagery?


Attitudes toward the "enemy"


The impact of war on waiting wives, lovers and civilian bystanders


Remembering the fallen soldier: from the classic Athenian funeral speech to the Vietnam Wall


How veterans live with physical and psychological injury


This memorable book is for readers who wonder about the meaning and experience of battle, about the impact of war and violence on our culture, and for anyone interested in the culture of ancient Greece.

Divided Loyalties - American Unions and the Vietnam War (Hardcover): Frank Koscielski Divided Loyalties - American Unions and the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Frank Koscielski
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the international leadership of the AFL-CIO, the UAW and UAW Local 600, the world's largest union local, and reveals that overall, working-class response to the Vietnam War mirrored that of the American society as a whole.

The League of Wives - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Hardcover):... The League of Wives - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Hardcover)
Heath Hardage Lee
R624 R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Save R427 (68%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves 'feminists', but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom - and to account for missing military men - by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.

The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club - Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War (Paperback): Thomas McKelvey Cleaver The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club - Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
R506 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R89 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'. On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox became embroiled in the infamous 'Gulf of Tonkin incident' that lead directly to America's increased involvement in the Vietnam War. Supporting the Maddox that day were four F-8E Crusaders from the USS Ticonderoga, signalling the start of the US Navy's commitment to the air war over Vietnam. The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club was the nickname for the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, Task Force 77, stationed off the coast of Vietnam which, at various points throughout the war, comprised as many as six carriers with 70-100 aircraft on board. The Seventh Fleet played an essential role in supporting operations over Vietnam, providing vital air support to combat troops on the ground and taking part in major operations such as Rolling Thunder and Linebacker I and II. Serving with the US Seventh Fleet during this period and involved in the dramatic history of The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club was author Tom Cleaver, who was a 20-year-old member of Commander Patrol Forces Seventh Fleet which had operational control over Maddox and Turner Joy. His use of dramatic first-hand experiences from interviews with both American and Vietnamese pilots plus official Vietnamese accounts of the war provides a balanced and personal picture of the conflict from both sides. Detailing the very earliest incident in the Gulf of Tonkin through to the final evacuation of US nationals in 1975, he brings the story of US air intervention into Vietnam vividly to life.

Postwar Journeys - American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 (Hardcover): Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala Postwar Journeys - American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 (Hardcover)
Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 tells the story of the dynamic roles played by ordinary American and Vietnamese citizens in their postwar quest for peace-an effort to transform their lives and their societies. Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala deepens our understanding of the Vietnam War and its aftermath by taking a closer look at postwar Vietnam and offering a fresh analysis of the effects of the war and what postwar reconstruction meant for ordinary citizens. This thoughtful exploration of US-Vietnam postwar relations through the work of US and Vietnamese civilians expands diplomatic history beyond its rigid conventional emphasis on national interests and political calculations as well as highlights the possibilities of transforming traumatic experiences or hostile attitudes into positive social change. Le-Tormala's research reveals a wealth of boundary-crossing interactions between US and Vietnamese citizens, even during the times of extremely restricted diplomatic relations between the two nation-states. She brings to center stage citizens' efforts to solve postwar individual and social problems and bridges a gap in the scholarship on the US-Vietnam relations. Peace efforts are defined in their broadest sense, ranging from searching for missing family members or friends, helping people overcome the ordeals resulting from the war, and meeting or working with former opponents for the betterment of their societies. Le-Tormala's research reveals how ordinary US and Vietnamese citizens were active historical actors who vigorously developed cultural ties and promoted mutual understanding in imaginative ways, even and especially during periods of governmental hostility. Through nonprofit organizations as well as cultural and academic exchange programs, trailblazers from diverse backgrounds promoted mutual understanding and acted as catalytic forces between the two governments. Postwar Journeys presents the powerful stories of love and compassion among former adversaries; their shared experiences of a brutal war and desire for peace connected strangers, even opponents, of two different worlds, laying the groundwork for US-Vietnam diplomatic normalization.

Delta Force - A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit (Paperback): Charlie... Delta Force - A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit (Paperback)
Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox 1
R493 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. When Charlie Beckwith issued this call to arms in Vietnam in 1965, he revolutionized American armed combat. This is the story of what would eventually come to be known as Delta Force, as only its maverick creator could tell it - from the bloody baptism of Vietnam to the top-secret training grounds of North Carolina to political battles in the upper levels of the Pentagon itself. This is the heart-pounding, first-person, insider's view of the missions that made Delta Force legendary. Through it all, the reader will become much better acquainted with America's deadliest weapon.

The Origins of the Vietnam War (Hardcover): Fredrik Logevall The Origins of the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Fredrik Logevall
R3,902 Discovery Miles 39 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full-scale war in 1965, and places events against their full international background.

Divided Loyalties - American Unions and the Vietnam War (Paperback): Frank Koscielski Divided Loyalties - American Unions and the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Frank Koscielski
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the international leadership of the AFL-CIO, the UAW and UAW Local 600, the world's largest union local, and reveals that overall, working-class response to the Vietnam War mirrored that of the American society as a whole.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh - The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Gregg Jones Last Stand at Khe Sanh - The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Gregg Jones
R603 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R95 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle.

Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972 - The Vietnam War's great conventional clash (Paperback): William E. Hiestand Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972 - The Vietnam War's great conventional clash (Paperback)
William E. Hiestand; Illustrated by Irene Cano Rodriguez
R359 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R68 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive. Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, the United States had almost completely withdrawn its forces from Vietnam by early 1972. Determined to halt the expansion and improvement of South Vietnamese forces under the U.S. "Vietnamization" program, North Vietnam launched a major fourteen-division attack in March 1972 against the South that became known as the "Easter Offensive." Hanoi's assault was spearheaded by 1,200 tanks and was counteracted on the opposite side by Saigon's newly equipped armored force using U.S. medium tanks. The result was ferocious fighting between major Cold War-era U.S. and Soviet tanks and mechanized equipment, pitting M-48 medium and M-41 light tanks against their T- 54 and PT-76 rivals in a variety of combat environments ranging from dense jungle to urban terrain. Both sides employed cutting-edge weaponry for the first time, including the U.S. TOW and Soviet 9M14 Malyutk wire-guided anti-tank missiles. This volume examines the tanks, armored forces and weapons that clashed in this little-known campaign in detail, using after-action reports from the battlefield and other primary sources to analyze the technical and organizational factors that shaped the outcome. Despite the ARVN's defensive success in October 1972, North Vietnam massively expanded its armor forces over the next two years while U.S. support waned. This imbalance with key strategic misjudgments by the South Vietnamese President led to the stunning defeat of the South in 1975 when T54 tanks crashed through the fence surrounding the Presidential palace and took Saigon on 30 April 1975.

The Vietnam War - 1956-75 (Paperback): Andrew Wiest The Vietnam War - 1956-75 (Paperback)
Andrew Wiest
R398 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this fully illustrated introduction, leading Vietnam War historian Dr Andrew Wiest provides a concise overview of America's most divisive war. America entered the Vietnam War certain of its Cold War doctrines and convinced of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. However, the war was not at all what the United States expected. Dr Andrew Wiest examines how, outnumbered and outgunned, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces resorted to a guerrilla war based on the theories of Mao Zedong of China, while the US responded with firepower and overwhelming force. Drawing on the latest research for this new edition, Wiest examines the brutal and prolonged resultant conflict, and how its consequences would change America forever, leaving the country battered and unsure as it sought to face the challenges of the final acts of the Cold War. As for Vietnam, the conflict would continue long after the US had exited its military adventure in Southeast Asia. Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is an accessible introduction to the most important event of the "American Century."

The Battle of Hue 1968 - Fight for the Imperial City (Paperback): James H. Willbanks The Battle of Hue 1968 - Fight for the Imperial City (Paperback)
James H. Willbanks; Illustrated by Ramiro Bujeiro
R484 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R90 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam, mounting simultaneous assaults on 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and five of the six autonomous cities (including the capital city of Saigon). The longest and bloodiest battle occurred in Hue, the most venerated place in Vietnam. The bitter fighting that raged there for more than three weeks drew the attention of the world. Hue was the ancient capital of Vietnam, and as such, had been previously avoided by both sides; it had not seen any serious fighting prior to 1968. All that changed on the night of January 31 that year when four North Vietnamese battalions and supporting Viet Cong units simultaneously attacked and occupied both parts of the city straddling the Perfume River. The Communist forces dug in and prepared to defend their hold on the city. US Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers were ordered to clear the city, supported by US Army artillery and troops. A brutal urban battle ensued as combat raged from house to house and door to door. It was a bloody fight and resulted in large-scale destruction of Hue. Eventually, the Marines and the South Vietnamese forces retook Hue, but it turned out to be one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Tet Offensive, and led to a sea change in US policy in Vietnam.

Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience - The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics during the Vietnam War (Hardcover):... Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience - The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics during the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
James C. Kearney, William H Clamurro
R896 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R165 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the 1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uni-form and serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative service outside the military, has received scarce atten-tion. This joint memoir by two 1-A-O combat medics, James C. Kearney and William H. Clamurro, represents a unique approach to the subject. It is a blend of their personal narratives—with select Vietnam poems by Clamurro—to illustrate noncombatant objection as a unique and relatively unknown form of Vietnam War protest. Both men initially met during training and then served as frontline medics in separate units “outside the wire” in Vietnam. Clamurro was assigned to a tank company in Tay Ninh province next to the Cambodian border, before reassignment to an aid station with the 1st Air Cavalry. Kearney served first as a medic with an artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division, then as a convoy medic during the Cambodian invasion with the 25th Infantry Division, and finally as a Medevac medic with the 1st Air Cavalry. In this capacity Kearney was seriously wounded during a “hot hoist” in February 1971 and ended up being treated by his friend Clamurro back at base. Because of their status as “a new breed of conscientious objector”—i.e., more political than religious in their convictions—the authors’ experience of the Vietnam War differed fundamentally from that of their fellow draftees and contrasted even with the great majority of their fellow 1-A-O medics, whose conscientious objector status was largely or entirely faith-based.

Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research (Hardcover): Charles R. Figley Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research (Hardcover)
Charles R. Figley
R1,649 Discovery Miles 16 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): J.A. Hobson Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
J.A. Hobson
R5,087 Discovery Miles 50 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place. An extension of the League of Nations, Hobson proposes that this council would need to hold legislative powers enabling it to impose economic sanctions and, if necessary, the ability to deploy an international force. This is a fascinating and exceptionally forward-thinking work, of great importance to economic and political historians of the twentieth century.

Vietnam - An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Paperback): Max Hastings Vietnam - An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R777 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R145 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War - Riot Control Agents in Combat (Paperback): D. Hank Ellison Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War - Riot Control Agents in Combat (Paperback)
D. Hank Ellison
R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own. Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War is a comprehensive and thoroughly fascinating examination of riot-control agents during the Vietnam War.

Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (Paperback): Simon Hall Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (Paperback)
Simon Hall
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1965 and 1973, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, civil disobedience, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently protested the country's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and key figures, the movement's strengths and weaknesses, how it intersected with other social and political movements of the time, and its lasting effect on the country. The book is perfect for anyone wanting to obtain an introduction to the Anti-War movement of the twentieth century.

America and the Vietnam War - Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Paperback): Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn... America and the Vietnam War - Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Paperback)
Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Glenn Robins
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict.

America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the conflict that helped to fundamentally change the nation. With chapters written by subject area specialists, America and the Vietnam War takes on subjects such as women s role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, race and the war, and veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder. Features include:

  • chapter summaries
  • timelines
  • discussion questions
  • guides to further reading
  • a companion website with primary source documents and tools (such as music and movie playlists) for both instructors and students.

Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.

The Vietnamese War - Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Hardcover): David Elliott The Vietnamese War - Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Hardcover)
David Elliott
R3,688 Discovery Miles 36 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A monumental work of research and analysis, this is a history of the Vietnam War in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975. More precisely, it is a study of the Vietnamese dimension of the "Vietnam War, " focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong." There are several distinctive features to this study: (1) it provides an explanation for the paradox of why the revolutionary movement was so successful during the war, but unable to meet the challenges of postwar developments; (2) it challenges the dominant theme of contemporary political analysis which assumes that people are "rational" actors responding to events with careful calculations of self-interest; (3) it closely examines province-level documentation that casts light on a number of important historical controversies about the war. No other history of the Vietnam War has drawn on such a depth of documentation, especially firsthand accounts that allow the Vietnamese participants to spea directly to us.

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