1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480976903321

Autore

Wiest Andrew A.

Titolo

Vietnam's forgotten army : heroism and betrayal in the ARVN / / Andrew Wiest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8147-9745-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

959.7043320922

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Vietnam (Republic) Officers

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

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword by James Webb""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Welcome to Vietnam""; ""1 Coming of Age in a Time of War""; ""2 A War Transformed: Battle, Politics, and the Americanization of the War, 1963�1966""; ""3 Fighting Two Wars: Years of Attrition and Pacification, 1966�1967""; ""4 A Time for Heroes: The Tet Offensive""; ""5 After Tet: The Year of Hope""; ""6 Hamburger Hill: The Untold Story of the Battle for Dong Ap Bia""; ""7 A War Transformed: Vietnamization, 1969�1970""

""8 Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams: Operation Lam Son 719""""9 The Making of a Traitor""; ""10 Journeys Home: Life in the Wake of a Lost War""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography  Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor in a war that seemed to have no end, exemplifying ARVN bravery and determination that is largely forgotten or ignored in the West. However, while Hue fought until he was captured by the North Vietnamese Army and then endured thirteen



years of captivity, Dinh surrendered and defected to the enemy, for

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466871603316

Titolo

P-adic analysis : proceedings of the international conference held in Trento, Italy, May 29-June 2 1989 / / Francesco Baldassari, Siegfried Bosch, Bernard Dwork, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

3-540-46906-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 1990.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 384 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 1454

Disciplina

512.74

Soggetti

p-adic analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Work of Philippe Robba -- p-Adic estimates for exponential sums -- p-Adic Betti lattices -- The nonarchimedean Banach-Stone theorem -- Cohomologie rigide et théorie des D-modules -- Extensions de D-modules et groupes de Galois differentiels -- Duality in rigid analysis -- On the Frobenius matrices of fermat curves -- Supercongruences -- Witt realization of the p-adic Barsotti-Tate groups; some applications -- Polyedres de Newton et poids de sommes exponentielles -- De rham cohomology and the Gauss-manin connection for drinfeld modules -- The nonarchimedean extended Teichmüller space -- Sur les coefficients de De Rham-Grothendieck des varietes algebriques -- On a functional equation of igusa's local zeta function -- On vanishing of cohomologies of rigid analytic spaces -- A p-adic analogue of the Chowla-Selberg formula -- The complementation property of ?? in p-adic banach spaces -- Gross-Koblitz formula for function fields -- Three generalizations of Mahler's expansion for continuous functions on ?p -- P-adic symmetric domains.