| Publication |
USA, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
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| Description |
130pBrown spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Describes in detail the causes antd the consequences of the Vietnam conflict during the period 1961-1975. Well illustrated, the book also contains a list of web sites which can furthur research into the subject.
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| Contents |
Communism
Origins of the Vietnam War
-French colonialism in Vietnam
-The dividing of Vietnam
Map of Vietnam
-The reasons for American intervention
Viet Cong
The advisor's war/MAAG
The Tonkin gulf incidents
Operation starlite
The modern cavalry : the arimobile war
The la Drang campaign
Map of la Drang campaign : October 1965
America's allies in Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh trail and the DMZ
The rolling thunder bombing campaign
The iron triangle
The riverine war
The unconventional war.........
The company commander's war
Generals of the War
Yankee station
The villager's war
The corspmen's war
The nurses' war
The tunnel war
Agent Orange
The journalists' war
The siege of Khe Sanh
The Tet Offensive
The politics of war
Atrocities : Hue and My Lai
'We gotta get outta this place' - music of...
The antiwar movement
The draft
Prisoners of war
Hamburger Hill
The secret war : Laos and Cambodia
Vietnamization
Operation Lam Son
Map of U.S. Military Regions of South Vietnam
The Easter offensive
The linebacker operations
The Paris peace talks
The'Pentagon papers' and Watergate
The fall of Saigon
Missing in Action
The Vietnam veterans memorial : The Wall
Vietnam after the war
Glossary
Bibliography
Vietnam war web sites
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| Standard Number |
9780689862311 Hb.
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