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Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prados, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2009]
Series:Modern war studies.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > History > 1945-
Table of 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.