Chant, Christopher

Summary: The Vietnam War constitutes a defining moment in modern history. Starting from a time soon after the Japanese surrender in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, and lasting to the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam in 1975 to re-create a unified Vietnamese state, the war pitted the Communists of Vietnam, against a number of opponents. Those included first the French and second the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018

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Karnow, Stanley.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997

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Sweet, Matthew

Summary: "Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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Burkett, B.G. (Bernard Gary)

Summary: Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verity Press 1998

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Maraniss, David.

Summary: Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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Mann, Robert

Summary: America's Descent into Vietnam, Given by Dr. JamesE. Archer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001

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Kaiser, David E.

Summary: Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War, its origins, its conduct, its consequences, is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this conflict. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000

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Jones, Howard

Summary: "In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017

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Freedman, Lawrence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000

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Turse, Nick.

Summary: Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013

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Prochnau, William W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1995

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Sheinkin, Steve.

Summary: "The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015

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Angers, Trent.

Summary: The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acadian House Publishing 2014

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Langguth, A. J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000

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Berman, Larry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001

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Summary: "Combat at Close Quarters presents the work of five renowned historians who describe and interpret the U.S. Navy's major combat operations in Southeast Asia, including the Rolling Thunder and Linebacker strikes against North Vietnam, the river war in South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, and the intelligence campaign. Over 200 images drawn from Navy archives and private collections, detailed maps, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2018

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Ashabranner, Brent K.

Summary: Discusses the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the controversies that have surrounded it, and some human interest stories connected with it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1988

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Sheehan, Neil.

Summary: Chronicles the military career of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, profiling his military and civilian roles in the Vietnam War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988

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McNamara, Robert S.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1995

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Benoit, Peter

Summary: Presents the timeline of the Vietnam War, including the causes of the conflict and the role played by the United States' involvement, and explores the war's impact upon today's political and cultural development.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012

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Kissinger, Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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