Modern Southeast Asia Series – serie
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Window on a War
An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict
Inbunden, 2002
454 kr
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When Gerald Hickey went to Vietnam in 1956 to complete his Ph.D. in anthropology, he didn't realize he would be there for most of the next eighteen years through the entire Vietnam War. After working with the country folk of the Mekong Delta for several years, in 1963 Hickey was recruited by the …
Vietnam and Beyond
A Diplomat's Cold War Education
Inbunden, 2002
425 kr
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This is an ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book. Robert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on Americas unsuccessful Vietnam venture from 1962 to the end of the war. This memoir of his full career emphasizes his Vietnam years but also covers his …
Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds
Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2004
353 kr
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'Wilensky does a fine job of examining medical aid programs in Vietnam and offers astute 'take aways'...This is a fine piece of scholarshipone that should inspire other historians to explore similar areas of the American experience in Vietnam' - ""Journal of Military History"". 'This …
After the Killing Fields
Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide
Häftad, 2006
281 kr
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'In spite of all the hand-wringing over the international community's failures to stop past crimes against humanity, we have not yet developed a consistent approach to the aftermath of these crimes. A sort of 'cottage industry devoted to denying that the Khmer Rouge committed any crimes' has …
Operation Passage to Freedom
The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955
Av Ronald B. Frankum, James R. Reckner
Inbunden, 2007
468 kr
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Very little has been written about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam in the immediate postKorean War era, nor has the magnitude of American participation in the resettlement of Vietnam refugees following the 1954 Geneva Conference been explored. Beginning in the fall of 1954, U.S. Navy ships, as a part of …
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The Unfinished War
Inbunden, 2009
324 kr
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The struggle for freedom in Vietnam goes on, said General Tran Van Nhut on the occasion of a Vietnam memorials dedication in 2004. It is a peaceful but unfinished war. Tran Van Nhut grew up with a great love for his country's history and served in the Army of South Vietnam from the Republics …
Battle at Ngok Tavak
Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam
Av Bruce Davies
Häftad, 2009
281 kr
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In May 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company under the command of an Australian army captain, supported by a U.S. Marine artillery detachment, occupied an old French fort on a hill known as Ngok Tavak. Though the ensuing battle and subsequent retreat appeared …
