Making of a Quagmire

America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-11-09
Mått:155 x 231 x 14 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742560086
Utmärkelser:2007 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award (Reprint)

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Mer om författaren

David Halberstam (1934–2007) was the author of 20 books, the last 14 of which have been national best-sellers. His most recent book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, is about the Chinese entry into the Korean War. He was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam and was a member of the elective Society of American Historians.

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For all the legions of books published on the Vietnam War, none surpasses one of the earliest and most prescient—David Halberstam's The Making of a Quagmire. Halberstam's shrewd observations of the complexities of Vietnamese politics and the obstacles the U.S. faced early in achieving its goals deeply inform the entire book. A brilliant study that has lost none of its power despite the history that unfolded after its publication, Halberstam's book deserves to be read again and again.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Edging Toward Calamity: Vietnam in the Early 1960sChapter 1: Coming into a Troubled LandChapter 2: Latter-Day Mandarins: The Ngo FamilyChapter 3: A Strange Alliance: The Americans and DiemPart II: The War in the DeltaChapter 4: In the Field with the ARVNChapter 5: Finding an Elusive FoeChapter 6: Disaster: The Battle of Ap BacChapter 7: Collapse in the DeltaPart III: The Fall of the Diem RegimeChapter 8: The Buddhist Revolt BeginsChapter 9: The Raid on the PagodasChapter 10: A Slow Change in American PolicyChapter 11: The Saigon Press ControversyChapter 12: The Final Days of Ngo Dinh DiemChapter 13: What Should Be Done in Vietnam?Epilogue: Return to Vietnam

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