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The complete idiot's guide to the Vietnam War, by Tim Maga

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The complete idiot's guide to the Vietnam War, by Tim Maga

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The complete idiot's guide to the Vietnam War

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

650067500

Responsibility statement

by Tim Maga

Series statement

The complete idiot's guide

Summary

This guide helps you understand what the Vietnam War meant then, and what it means for us today. Brings all of the facts and analysis together with the hindsight of history, putting the complicated facts into meaningful focus

Table Of Contents

The not-so-good war. Discovering Vietnam ; Ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh ; Uncle Ho meets Uncle Sam ; Thirty years' war, act one ; Destiny at Dienbienphu -- How to make a quagmire. Thirty years' war, act two ; Kings of corruption ; The Eisenhower era passes ; Enter the new frontier ; The American lake ; The other Vietnam? -- Escalation. Holding the beachhead ; All the way with LBJ ; Thirty year's war, act three ; Death in Pleiku ; March to victory? ; The young Turks and the search for victory -- No light in the tunnel. Question authority ; The art of lying ; The Tet offensive ; The battling Democrats and campaign '68 ; Thirty years' war, the final act -- Cambodia ; Watergate -- Defeat and renewal. Coming home ; The fall of Saigon ; Hollywood goes to Vietnam ; The road to normalization and beyond -- Casualty figures for the Vietnam War -- Glossary

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Vietnam War

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