vietnam war, 1961-1975

"Former Marine John Musgrave's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath"--Adapted from publisher description.

"The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war"--Amazon.

Discusses the history of the creation of the Vietnam War memorial.

"A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in United States history, in Richard Nixon's Washington"--Provided by publisher.

"Recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. By 1969 nearly half of the junior enlisted men who died in Vietnam were draftees. And their median age was 21--among the non-draftees it was only 20. The book describes the 'baby boomers' growing up in the 1950s, why they went into the military, what they thought of the war, and what it was like to serve in 'Nam.' And to come home. The book depicts the cruelty of this war, and its quiet acts of courage"--Amazon.

"Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle"--OCLC.

"Presents a military and political history of the Vietnam War during 1965--the pivotal first year of the American conflict when the U.S. intervened directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for twenty years"--Provided by publisher.

Reconstructs the events of the night of August 4, 1964 when U.S. Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin reported they were under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, arguing that there really was no North Vietnamese attack, and looking at the resulting escalation of American involvement in the war.

"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"--Back cover.

"Going beyond the dominant orthodox narrative to incorporate insight from revisionist scholarship on the Vietnam War, Michael G. Kort presents the case that the United States should have been able to win the war, and at a much lower cost than it suffered in defeat. Presenting a study that is both historiographic and a narrative history, Kort analyzes important factors such as the strong nationalist credentials and leadership qualities of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem; the flawed military strategy of 'graduated response' developed by Robert McNamara; and the real reasons South Vietnam collapsed in the face of a massive North Vietnamese invasion in 1975. Kort shows how the US commitment to defend South Vietnam was not a strategic error but a policy consistent with US security interests during the Cold War, and that there were potentially viable strategic approaches to the war that might have saved South Vietnam"--Provided by publisher.