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A Short History of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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A Short History of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine
Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the
south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a
conflict that would haunt American politics and society for many
years, even after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in January
1973. For the people of North Vietnam it was just another in a long
line of foreign invaders. For two thousand years they had struggled
for self-determination, coming into conflict during that time with
the Chinese, the Mongols, the European colonial powers, the
Japanese and the French. Now it was the turn of the United States,
a far-away nation reluctant to go to war but determined to prevent
Vietnam from falling into Communist hands. A Short History of the
Vietnam War explains how the United States became involved in its
longest war, a conflict that, from the outset, many claimed it
could never win. It details the escalation of American involvement
from the provision of military advisors and equipment to the
threatened South Vietnamese, to an all-out shooting war involving
American soldiers, airmen and sailors, of whom around 58,000 would
die and more than 300,000 would be wounded. Their struggle was
against an indomitable enemy, able to absorb huge losses in terms
of life and infrastructure. The politics of the war are examined
and the decisions and ambitions of five US presidents are addressed
in the light of what many have described as a defeat for American
might. The book also explores the relationship of the Vietnam War
to the Cold War politics of the time.
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