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Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975
Title:
Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975
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ISBN:
9780700616343
Publication Information:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2009.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 665 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
A splendid little war -- March-July 1954 : Dien Bein Phu, Geneva, and the harnessing of American power -- Many roads to quagmire (1954-1960) -- Loose the fateful lightning (1961-1964) -- August 1964 : the last mystery of the Tonkin Gulf -- Burnished rows of steel (1964-1965) -- A hundred circling camps (1965-1967) -- Trampling out the vintage (1967) -- January-May 1968 : Tet Mau Than -- Terrible swift sword (1968-1969) -- Crush the serpent under heel (1969) -- Dim and flaring lamps (1969-1971) -- Die to make men free (1970) -- Sound forth the trumpet (1971) -- Evening dews and damps (1971-1972) -- Sifting out the hearts of men (1972) -- The truth comes marching home.
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