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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 959
EAN: 9781565849433
ISBN: 1565849434
Label: New Press, The
Manufacturer: New Press, The
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 03, 2004
Publisher: New Press, The
Studio: New Press, The
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The war in Indochina as seen by those who fought on both sides.
This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront.
The protagonists in Neale's history of the "American War" (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage —American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt.
His narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world's most powerful military machine. 11 black-and-white photographs.
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This book is part of the "People's History" series, conceived of by Howard Zinn. The most famous and well-read in the series is the one on the United States, and it is a shame that this one has not been more widely read, since, as Faulkner famously said, "The past is not dead; it is not even the past," and a significant aspect of this book is to relate the actions and events surrounding this war to contemporary ones. The "People's History" series is the antithesis of the "Big Man" theory of history, ... Read More
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Very interesting analysis of the class struggles both in Vietnam and the US, that as a consequence leaded to the Vietnam war. Recommended.
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The war in Iraq and September 11th probably will be the defining event of the youth of the United States today when we look back in a few decades, in much the same way the war in Vietnam defined a generation of youth in the 1960s and 1970s. In a war that ended place a decade before most of those youth were born, what lessons can we take back? How exactly did the Vietnamese win? What were the social movements in the US that arose out of this conflict? Why are the myths of the American-Vietnamese War? ... Read More
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Amazon forces you to give stars. I would have given none.
While the history parts of the book appear accurate, (because it is all based on the research of others) a history book should be factual and not opinionated. The author uses the excuse of the subject to get on his soap box and go on about the angst of the worker. This book gets predictable and boring fast. I appreciate books and the written word and will almost always pass a book on rather than see an author's work wasted. However, ... Read More
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Jonathan Neale, the author of this book, is an American writer, an anti-globalisation activist and a member of the International Socialist Organisation. Chapters cover the Vietnamese people, why the USA attacked Vietnam, US atrocities, the guerrilla warfare, the US protests, the US soldiers, Vietnam and Cambodia after the war, and the USA and the world after the war. But unfortunately, the book is a Trotskyist account, so it is completely misleading about all the key elements of the war.
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