Light at the end of the tunnel [[electronic resource]] : a Vietnam War anthology / / edited by Andrew J. Rotter

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (517 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.704/3373
• Soggetto topico: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam Politics and government 1945-1975
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RotterAndrew Jon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Chronology of U.S. Intervention; Chapter 1: Getting in, 1945-1952; 1. Ho Chi Minh: The Untried Gamble; 2. The United States, its Allies, and the Bao Dai Experiment; Chapter 2: Fighting Shy, 1953-1961; 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Wholehearted Support of Ngo Dinh Diem; 4. Geneva, 1954: The Precarious Peace; 5. The CIA Comes to Vietnam; Chapter 3: Digging in, 1961-1968; 6. No ""Non-Essential Areas"": Kennedy and Vietnam; 7. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution; 8. Lyndon Johnson Chooses War ; 9. The Tet Offensive, 196810. A Dissenter in the Administration; Chapter 4: Getting Out, 1968-1975; 11. Nixon, Kissinger, and a Pax Americana; 12. Bombing Hanoi, Mining Haiphong, and the Moscow Summit; 13. Stabbed in the Back; Part II: In Country; Chapter 5: Allies and Enemies; 14. Ngo Dinh Diem, the Impossible Ally; 15. Ngo Dinh Diem, Modernizer; 16. The Foreign Policy of North Vietnam; 17. The National Liberation Front and the Land; Chapter 6: The Battlefield; 18. Getting Hit; 19. Feeling Cold; 20. Nursing and Disillusionment; 21. ""They Did Not Know Good from Evil"" ; 22. My Lai: The Killing Begins Part III: Controversies and Consequences of American Involvement; Chapter 7: International Dimensions of the War; 23. The Soviet Union and American Escalation; 24. China and the American Escalation; 25. The Vietnamese and Global Revolutions; Chapter 8: Laos and Cambodia; 26. The War in Laos; 27. Bombing Cambodia: A Critique; 28. Bombing Cambodia: A Defense; Chapter 9: Interpreting the War; 29. A Clash of Cultures; 30. An Opportunity for Power; 31. A Defense of Freedom; 32. An Act of Imperialism; 33. An Assertion of Manhood; Chapter 10: The War in America ; 34. Working-Class War 35. Seeds of a Movement; 36. Women at the Barricades, Then and Now; Chapter 11: The Legacy of War; 37. Saigon: The End and the Beginning; 38. Homecoming USA; 39. Amerasians: A People in Between; Chapter 12: Afterword; 40. Letting Go; Notes; Sources
• Sommario/riassunto: Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has been as divisive as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our society. Although it ended more than 30 years ago, the Vietnam War continues to fascinate and trouble Americans. The third edition of Light at the End of the Tunnel gives a full overview of the conflict. Starting with Ho Chi Minh's revolt against the French, editor Andrew J. Rotter takes the reader through the succeeding years as scholars, government officials, journalists, and others recount the
• Titolo autorizzato: Light at the end of the tunnel
• ISBN: 9786613916631; 1-283-60418-3; 1-4616-3889-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462501503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II