Title
- Modern War Studies
Attribution
John PradosPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Kansas2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS558 .P743 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Prados patiently pieces back together the events and moments, from the end of World War II until our dispiriting departure from Vietnam in 1975, that reveal a war that now appears to have been truly unwinnable–due to opportunities lost, missed, ignored, or refused. By turns engaging narrative history, compelling analytic treatise, and moving personal account, Prados’s magnum opus challenges previous authors and should rightfully take its place as the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate one-volume account of a war that–judging by the frequent analogies to the current war in Iraq–has not yet really ended for any of us. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- A splendid little war
- March-July 1954 : Dien Bein Phu, Geneva, and the harnessing of American power
- Many roads to quagmire (1954-1960)
- Loose the fateful lightning (1961-1964)
- August 1964 : the last mystery of the Tonkin Gulf
- Burnished rows of steel (1964-1965)
- A hundred circling camps (1965-1967)
- Trampling out the vintage (1967)
- January-May 1968 : Tet Mau Than
- Terrible swift sword (1968-1969)
- Crush the serpent under heel (1969)
- Dim and flaring lamps (1969-1971)
- Die to make men free (1970)
- Sound forth the trumpet (1971)
- Evening dews and damps (1971-1972)
- Sifting out the hearts of men (1972)
- The truth comes marching home
ISBN
- 9780700616343
- 0700616349
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