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  • Before the Quagmire

    American Intervention in Laos, 1954–1961

    by William J. Rust ...
    This critical study of US intervention in the Laotian Civil War is "a major contribution to the literature on America's Southeast Asian involvement" ( Publishers Weekly).In the decade preceding the first US combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although US foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BRITONS IN SPAIN

    The History of The British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade

    by William Rust ...
    A history of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade, of the two thousand British volunteers who fought, bled and died on Spanish soil between August 1936 and December 1938. The killed and missing numbered five hundred, the wounded over twelve hundred; many were incapacitated for life. Less than eight hundred remained in the ranks when the withdrawal took place. Their story is one ... Read more

    $5.53 CAD

  • Thoughts of Emotions

    by William Rust ...
    These poems are short stories about an emotion that the author was feeling, pieces of his life in words frozen in time. By reading these poems, you will get to know him and what he was going through in life. These are the thoughts of emotions, and he hopes you will enjoy and feel what he felt at the time he wrote the poem. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Eisenhower & Cambodia

    Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War

    by William J. Rust ...
    This historical study examines America's Cold War diplomacy and covert operations intended to lure Cambodia from neutrality to alliance.Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Much to Lose

    John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos

    by William J. Rust ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    Before U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy strove to defeat a communist-led insurgency in Laos. This impoverished, landlocked Southeast Asian kingdom was geopolitically significant because it bordered more powerful communist and anticommunist nations. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, which traversed the country, was also a critical route for North Vietnamese ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    by Fredrik Logevall ...
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  • The Vietnam War:A Concise International History

    A Concise International History

    by Mark Atwood Lawrence ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war. His narrative begins well before American forces set ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Vietnam War

    An Intimate History

    by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns ...
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  • The Cold War

    A Military History

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States ... Read more

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  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
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  • Ending the Vietnam War

    A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy.Many other authors have written about what they thought happened—or thought should have happened—in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every ... Read more

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  • In Retrospect

    The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

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