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  • Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975

    War, Society, Diaspora

    by Trinh M. Luu, Tuong Vu, Dr. David L. Prentice, Dr. George J. Veith, Dr. Cam Hoang Thanh, Dr. Thị Hồng Hà Phạm, Dr. Thùy Dung Trương, Dr. Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, Professor Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox0, Dr. Jason Gibbs1, Dr. Tuan Hoang2, Dr. Vinh Phu Pham3, Dr. Phạm Vũ Lan Anh4 ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975 boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic. In twelve essays, each based on original archival research, the volume brings to life the Second Republic in all its complexities, displaying how ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Unwilling to Quit

    The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam

    by David L. Prentice ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    Although US involvement in the Vietnam conflict began long before 1965, Lyndon Johnson's substantial large commitment of combat troops that year marked the official beginning of America's longest twentieth-century war. By 1969, after years of intense fighting and thousands of casualties, an increasing number of Americans wanted the United States out of Vietnam. Richard Nixon looked for a way to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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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

    $20.89 USD

  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
    The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Zinn's compelling case against the Vietnam War, now with a new introduction. Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's stands out as one of the best—and most influential. It helped sparked national debate on the war. It includes a powerful speech written by Zinn that President Johnson should have given to lay out the case for ending the war. ... Read more

    $8.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War

    by David Anderson ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test case" of American commitment in the fight against communism? Why were the "best and brightest" ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

    Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shmoop US History Guide: The Vietnam War

    by Shmoop ...
    Dive deep into the history of The Vietnam War anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at night ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Misalliance

    Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

    by Edward Miller ...
    In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as “the miracle man of Southeast Asia” and funneled huge amounts of aid to his South Vietnamese government. But in 1963 Diem was ousted and assassinated in a coup endorsed by President John F. Kennedy. Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Origins of the Vietnam War

    by Fredrik Logevall ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full-scale war in 1965, and places events against their full international background. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Vietnam War

    A Documentary Reader

    by Edward Miller ...
    Series series Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
    The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America's conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences.Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • The War That Never Ends

    New Perspectives on the Vietnam War

    Edited by David L. Anderson, John Ernst ...
    More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent military engagements. Many Americans have observed that Vietnam-era terms such as "cut and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD