Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War,9780582287181

Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War

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ISBN13: 9780582287181
ISBN10: 0582287189
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

Few wars have had such a deep impact on the American people than the Vietnam War.Gerard de Groot's clear-eyed treatment covers the military events, the political and strategic contexts, as well as the social and cultural impact of the war. It's a powerful study which offers fresh insights into the communist revolution and military tactics, the flaws in US strategy and the legacy of the war both for Vietnam and America. An important new study on a subject often masked by sentiment and myth.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xiii
A Note on Nomenclature xv
Introduction: Historians at War 1(17)
`The White Man is Finished in Asia'
18(35)
`Ask Not...'
53(30)
The Vietnamese Ally
83(19)
The Vietnamese Enemy
102(23)
Limited War
125(34)
Turning Point? Tet and the 1968 Election
159(24)
Rolling Thunder
183(18)
Peace with Honour?
201(36)
The Fall of Saigon
237(15)
An American Defeat
252(21)
A Grunt's Life
273(26)
`Muddled Actors in a Theater of the Absurd'
299(26)
`A Country, Not a War'
325(15)
Remembering and Forgetting
340(21)
Bibliography 361(11)
Maps 372(6)
Index 378

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