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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.
Building on exchanges he had with readers of his e-mail list, in 2018 Clear published his book Atomic Habits on how to build tiny, frequent habits that have a large beneficial and cumulative effect on one's life. According to the intro of his book, he had to build such habits when rehabilitating from a severe cranial injury that he suffered ...
During the Vietnam War, the use of the helicopter, known as "Air Mobile", was an essential tool for conducting the war. In fact, the whole conduct and strategy of the war depended on it. Vietnam was the first time the helicopter was used on a major scale, and in such important roles.
This is a bibliography of works on the Vietnam War.. The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources. Additionally, the scope of the bibliography expands to the causes of the Vietnam War and the immediate aftermath, such as evacuation and expulsion and war crimes trials.
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 .
[1] [2] The book was ranked by critics as one of the top books of the year, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 10 weeks, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, the National Book Award and the Hillman Prize. [3] It was published in paperback in 1973 by Vintage Books. [4]
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 ...
His eventual rescue from behind enemy lines was the "largest, longest, and most complex search-and-rescue" operation during the entire Vietnam War. [ 2 ] Hambleton had received water survival training at Homestead Air Force Base , Florida, and escape and evasion training and survival basics at the Pacific Air Command Jungle Survival School in ...