An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War, 1968-1970
In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African-Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th ......
Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a World at War
A study of the antecedents and conduct of the Vietnamese Revolution modelled around the hypothesis that the fall of the French colonial regime and its substitution by a Vietnamese Democratic Republic were the results of two causal chains: Roosevelt's Indochina policy, which effectively created a power vacuum after the Japanese surrender; and the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1930 and its subsequent construction of a front for the independence of Vietnam. This text considers the crucial fifteen years which culminated in the establishment of Vietnam. This book explores the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945. Two causal chains are established, one starting with the founding of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930, the other with President Roosevelt's intense preoccupation from 1943 to 1945 with the future of French Indochina. Tonnesson builds on a wealth of hitherto unexploited archival sources in France, theUnited States, Vietnam, Great Britain and Sweden. The book encompasses the history of the Vietnamese Revolution in discussions of broader theoretical issues, and places it within the context of international developments at the time. Tonnesson finds that the Vietnamese Revolution was not the result of careful revolutionary planning or correct predictions. It resulted from a power vacuum, following the sudden Japanese surrender. Despite the vision of the Indochinese communist leaders of a unified state on the whole territory of French Indochina, the fact that only today's Vietnam was included in the Republic proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in September 1945 was due to circumstance, not to plan. The role of President Roosevelt is revealed as a key to the success of the Revolution. A few months before the revolution, a top secret American deception operation contributed to the downfall of the French colonial regime - at the hands of the Japanese. Roosevelt most probably engineered a comprehensive anti-french ploy, which has since remained secret.
Describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. Not just an analysis of the battle, this title also ponders the question of how to win an unpopular war on foreign soil, linking battlefield events to political reality.
The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69
At the chaotic height of the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969, Maj. Reginald Hathorn flew 229 combat missions as a forward air controller for the U.S. Air Force under the call sign of Nail 31.
Military history looking at aviators during the second half of Vietnam. The stories are told through interviews and journal excerpts of the pilots and aircrew themselves. Great tradey title.
A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon
For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For Gen. Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of Vietnam and its army grew up and collapsed with the fall of ......
From the Journals of a Us Marine Intelligence Officer
As an intelligence officer during the Vietnam War, Fred L. Edwards Jr., was instructed to "visit every major ground unit in the country. Go to Special Forces camps, ground reconnaissance units, armored cavalry units, and waterborne reconnaissance units. Search everywhere for intelligence sources--long range patrols, boats, electronic surveillance, ......
A Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans (formerly titled, Touched by the Dragon) details wartime accounts of average servicemen and women - some heroic, some frightening, some amusing, some nearly unbelievable. The work is ahistorical compendium of fascinating and compelling stories woven together in a theme format. What makes ......
