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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975 is a 2018 nonfiction book by the British military historian Max Hastings. The full text is divided into 28 chapters. The full text is divided into 28 chapters. The author recounts the beginnings of the First Indochina War up until the end of The Vietnam War .
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era Duong Van Mai Elliott is a Vietnamese author, writer and translator. Her memoir, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family (Oxford University Press), [ 1 ] tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese family.
Robert Yott is compiling stories from Southern Tier Vietnam War veterans for a book timed with next year's 50th anniversary of the end of the war. Calling all Vietnam veterans: Bath historian ...
The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (ISBN 978-0813190365) is a book by General Bruce Palmer Jr. about the Vietnam War, and was published in 1984.. The book is split into two parts, the first which follows chronologically the events leading to the fall of Saigon in 1975 and mentions Palmer's position in those events.
Fallen Angels is a 1988 young-adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers, about the Vietnam War.It won the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award. Fallen Angels is listed as number 16 in the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000 due to its use of profanity and realistic depiction of the war.
In “ Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” a six-part docuseries debuting Friday on Apple TV+, Broyles recounts how he was so scared in his first firefight that he lost his voice and had to ...
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by historian Fredrik Logevall, then a professor at Cornell University.The book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. [1]