Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 344 p. Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America's escalation of forces in Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam... I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'. In 'I Made Mistakes', Aurélie Basha i Novosejt provides a fresh and controversial...
Brookings Institution Press, 2000. — 387 p. Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of its foreign policy decision making system. According to Gelb and Betts, however, the foreign policy failed, but the decision making system...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 455 p. Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated what if in U.S. foreign policy, this provocative work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US–Vietnam...
University Press of Kentucky, 2016. — 309 p. In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance―the attempt to...
Texas University Press, 2004. — 414 p. The Search for Peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968, the newest edition in the Texas University Press Series on Foreign Relations and the Presidency, is a collection of essays that analyze the Vietnam War in terms of its significance to the global arena. Under the guidance of editors Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger, the contributors,...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. — 288 p. Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, Invisible Enemies examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, Edwin Martini shows how the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 297 p. Despite French President Charles de Gaulle's persistent efforts to constructively share French experience and use his resources to help engineer an American exit from Vietnam, the Kennedy administration responded to de Gaulle's peace initiatives with bitter silence and inaction. The administration's response ignited a series of...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 436 p. Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now...
Routledge, 2021. — 221 р. This book examines the unfolding new relationship between Vietnam and the United States (US) since the end of the Cold War, discussing how the relationship has emerged as one of the most intriguing facets of the regional geopolitical landscape and how the two countries turned from staunch adversaries to partners within the span of four decades after...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 248 p. Jennifer Way's study The Politics of Vietnamese Craft uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of American cultural diplomacy, in which Vietnamese craft production was encouraged and shaped by the US State Department as an object for consumption by middle class America. Way explores how American business and commerce, department stores, the art...
Благовещенск: Благовещенский государственный педагогический университет, 2017. — 183 с. В настоящей публикации «Война во Вьетнаме (1964-1973 гг.) и её наследие: источники», представлен материал, позволяющий составить представление об имеющихся в настоящее время источниках, связанных с историей войны во Вьетнаме (1964-1973 гг.), с акцентом на участие в ней США, а также обращаясь...
Благовещенск: Благовещенский государственный педагогический университет, 2017. — 275 с. В настоящей публикации «Война во Вьетнаме (1964-1973 гг.) и еѐ наследие: литература», представлен материал, позволяющий составить представление об имеющейся в настоящее время литературе, связанной с историей войны во Вьетнаме (1964-1973 гг.), с акцентом на участие в ней США, а также...
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