1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452538403321

Autore

Olson James Stuart <1946->

Titolo

Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / / James S. Olson and Randy Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

ISBN

1-118-60868-2

Edizione

[Sixth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RobertsRandy <1951->

Disciplina

959.704/3373

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States

Electronic books.

Vietnam History 1945-1975

Vietnam History 1975-

Vietnam Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Vietnam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.

Sommario/riassunto

This updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions. Revised and updated to include an examination of Vietnam through the point of view of the soldiers themselves, and brings the story up to the present day through a look at how the war has been memorializedA final chapter examines Vietnam through the lens of Oliver Stone's films and opens up a discu



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696439503321

Titolo

Ambient water quality criteria recommendations [[electronic resource] ] : information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion XIV : eastern coastal plain including all or parts of the states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the authorized tribes within the ecoregion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, , [2001]

Descrizione fisica

1 volume (various pagings) : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Water quality - Standards - East (U.S.)

Nutrient pollution of water - East (U.S.)

Water - Pollution - East (U.S.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 10, 2003).

"December 2001."

"EPA 822-B-01-011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.