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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457207503321

Autore

McDermott Mike <1940->

Titolo

True faith and allegiance [[electronic resource] ] : an American paratrooper and the 1972 battle for An Loc / / Mike McDermott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8583-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

959.704/342

Soggetti

An Loc, Battle of, An Lộc, Vietnam, 1972

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Electronic books.

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

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to the Past; 2. The Current State of Play; 3. Welcome to Team 162 and the Vietnamese Airborne; 4. Side Trips from the National Training Center; 5. Work Call; 6. Off to War; 7. Visiting Brass; 8. A Media Event; 9. Hitting the Wall; 10. Shifting Gears; 11. From the Frying Pan into the Fire; 12. Rangers in Foxholes; 13. Trying to Not Get Overrun; 14. New Digs; 15. Airborne Rangers into the Breach; 16. Tactical Arc Lights; 17. The SA- 7 Missile Arrives with a Bang; 18. To Catch a FAC

19. The Helicopter Lifeline Is Cut20. The Oldest Lieutenant; 21. Belt- Tightening Time; 22. Moving Uptown; 23. Sick Call in the Basement; 24. A Shattered Image; 25. Tanks in Town; 26. The Enemy's Worst Nightmare Was Named Spectre; 27. Disjointed Events; 28. The Ambivalence of Leaving; 29. Off with the Old and on with the New; 30. In Retrospect; Epilogue; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of America's departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of Washington's stampede to get out of Indochina was an upsurge in combat on a scale not seen before in Vietnam, peaking with the Easter



Offensive of 1972.  The battle for An Loc, a key component in the North Vietnamese attempt to overwhelm the South, swept Mike McDermott, then the senior advisor to an

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778191503321

Autore

Cuban Larry

Titolo

Oversold and underused [[electronic resource] ] : computers in the classroom / / Larry Cuban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-674-03010-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

371.334

Soggetti

Computer-assisted instruction - United States - History

Educational technology - United States - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Reforming Schools through Technology 1. The Setting 2. Cyberteaching in Preschools and Kindergartens 3. High-Tech Schools, Low-Tech Learning 4. New Technologies in Old Universities 5. Making Sense of Unexpected Outcomes 6. Are Computers in Schools Worth the Investment? Appendix: Rationale for Choices of School Levels Notes Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many educators and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve learning and prepare students for an information-based workplace. This book contests that when teachers are not given a say in how the technology might reshape schools, computers have little impact.