Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times
ISBN: 9780253220028 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the time this book was first published in 1992, he was little known by most Americans. For more than four decades, in three wars and in challenging peacetime assignments, Abrams demonstrated the skill, courage, integrity, and compassion that made him a legend in his profession. Thunderbolt is the definitive biography of the man who commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam during the withdrawal stage and for whom the army's main battle tank is named. With a new introduction by the author, this... General Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the time this book was first published in 199... |
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West Across the Pacific: American Involvement in East Asia from 1898 to the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781934043882 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the problem of a country telling a grand narrative to itself that does not hold up under closer examination, a narrative that leads to possibly avoidable war. In particular, the book explains and questions the narrative the United States was telling itself about East Asia and the Pacific in the late 1930s, with (in retrospect) the Pacific War only a few years away. Through empirical methods, it details how the standard narrative failed to understand what was really happening based on documents that later became available. The documents researched are from the Diet Library...
This book addresses the problem of a country telling a grand narrative to itself that does not hold up under closer examination, a narrative that lead...
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575,53 zł |
A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780195365924 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal--indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Schulzinger examines the impact of the war from many angles. He traces the long, twisted, and painful path of reconciliation with Vietnam, the heated controversy over soldiers who were missing in action, the influx of over a million Vietnam refugees into the US, and the plight of...
The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal--indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American histor...
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78,69 zł |
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
ISBN: 9780060888398 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale--not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, -We are now in the U.S. war room.- In Perfect... During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halbe... |
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85,64 zł |
Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781604731828 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War and the literature it produced This groundbreaking analysis of Vietnam War fiction, poetry, and drama offers far-ranging implications for studies in cultural criticism of that era. It explodes cherished myths and offers an alternative perspective to the one generally espoused by writers and critics who spotlight the issues of the American involvement in Vietnam. Most, subscribing to the myth that Vietnam was unique, toil to give logic to it and strive for sense and order. Yet they reach no satisfactory outcome. Instead of the myth, as this...
A new paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War and the literature it produced This groundbreaking analysis of Vietnam War fiction, poetry, and drama of...
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216,22 zł |
Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK
ISBN: 9780742556997 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Virtual JFK DVD is now available For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http: //www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is President--Then and Now At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated "what if" in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores what...
The Virtual JFK DVD is now available For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http: //www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is Pres...
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257,54 zł |
Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard
ISBN: 9780275938550 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol Pot regime. "Genocide by Proxy" is an account of a country at war and of a people consigned to the role of pawn in world politics. Michael Haas contends that Cambodia became an arena for superpower conflict and thus could only find peace when the superpowers extricated themselves from the country. In providing perhaps the best explanation of the causes of the Cambodian tragedy, Haas exposes the narcissism that reigns when one state forces another... A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol P... |
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576,07 zł |
Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies
ISBN: 9780275945558 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a balanced, new perspective on the Vietnam War, based on considerable new primary research to explain the salient factors that contributed to the decision making, air and ground considerations, and outcome. This text, carefully focused for classes in modern American history and military studies, appraises the legacies of the Vietnam War that have been felt in the United States for the last two decades.
This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a b... |
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276,19 zł |
Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory
ISBN: 9780822344148 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives, U.S. military guides, and tourist guidebooks, pamphlets, and brochures. Whether implying that Vietnamese women were in need of saving by manly American military power or celebrating the neoliberal reforms Vietnam implemented in the 1980s, ostensibly neutral guides have repeatedly represented...
In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans understanding of Vietnam and projections of United...
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127,38 zł |
Consequences of Failure
ISBN: 9780393337433 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the historical evolution of the American people there have been four major crises, each of which we either surmounted out of our own spiritual and physical resources or were rescued from by virtue of outside events: the birth of a viable government in 1789, slavery and the trauma of ending it, the moral obligation of membership in the League of Nations, and the Great Depression of 1929. And now there is a fifth, the challenge to deal with the consequences of our failure in Vietnam in the world at large, in Asia, in Vietnam, and most importantly here at home. Victory and how to achieve it...
In the historical evolution of the American people there have been four major crises, each of which we either surmounted out of our own spiritual and ...
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85,68 zł |
Distant Shore: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781438937755 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the stormy night of September 16, 1967, young Marine Alvin Simpson faced the terrors of a long night at sea on a Higgins boat during a typhoon. Men all around him were convulsing, sickened by the waves, the cold, and diesel smoke. The trials of that night on the open sea strengthened Alvin's faith in God as he remembered to pray the way his grandfather had taught him. And it was this faith that sustained him through the many months and battles yet to come during his time in Vietnam. Distant Shore: A Memoir is the story of Alvin's life, written to share with his daughter Tara, her children,...
On the stormy night of September 16, 1967, young Marine Alvin Simpson faced the terrors of a long night at sea on a Higgins boat during a typhoon. Men...
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67,47 zł |
In Love and War, Revised and Updated: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years
ISBN: 9781557507846 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique American chronicle of a Navy family's life during the Vietnam War years, this widely acclaimed memoir has been updated to include an outspoken account of the Stockdale's experiences in the seventeen years since Jim's release from a Hanoi prison.
A unique American chronicle of a Navy family's life during the Vietnam War years, this widely acclaimed memoir has been updated to include an outspoke...
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141,16 zł |
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
ISBN: 9780805091229 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."--The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved--from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score... "A story of epic proportions and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."--The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, |
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Psywarrior: The Misadventures of an Insolent Warrior
ISBN: 9781432738051 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psywarrior is a humorous account of one aspect of the most unpopular war in American history - Vietnam. How much trouble can a young Air Force pilot get into on his first assignment? Provide him the use of an airplane six days a week, one grunt for a crew, a mission of dubious importance and minimal risk, and all of South Vietnam as his playground and you can imagine. This is a true saga about the misadventures of just such a young warrior on his first tour in Vietnam. Put aside all of the misconceptions you have been taught about that war and enjoy a good tale.
Psywarrior is a humorous account of one aspect of the most unpopular war in American history - Vietnam. How much trouble can a young Air Force pilot g...
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115,46 zł |
The Telescope: A Familiar Sketch, Combining A Special Notice Of Objects Coming Within The Range Of A Small Telescope (1869)
ISBN: 9780548875605 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,71 zł |
Unconventional Conflicts in a New Security Era: Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
ISBN: 9780313277634 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States must devise entirely new military and political strategies because threats to the nation's security have shifted so markedly. This work provides the first comparative analysis of unconventional conflicts, using Malaya and Vietnam as lessons for developing effective policies and operations to counter strife, drug wars, and new types of Third World conflict today. This text for students, experts, and policymakers in military studies, history, and international relations combines insights from primary and secondary sources, participant-observer experiences, and scholarly and... The United States must devise entirely new military and political strategies because threats to the nation's security have shifted so markedly. Thi... |
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576,07 zł |
G.I. Resister: The Story of How One American Soldier and His Family Fought the War in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781552128510 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,40 zł |
Always a Soldier
ISBN: 9781432744540 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Author has lived a very exciting and rewarding life and wishes to share it with you. He begins with his childhood memories during World War II . He then covers every assignment in a twenty year military career while serving with many distinguished men. He also provides a view of his retirement years. He was a somewhat delinquent child and didn't find his purpose in life until he joined the military at age seventeen. He served for eight years in the Corps of Engineers as an Enlisted Man and twelve years as an Officer in the Army Infantry. He served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam and...
The Author has lived a very exciting and rewarding life and wishes to share it with you. He begins with his childhood memories during World War II . H...
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64,05 zł |
Dai Uy Hoch: A Legend in Remote Seas
ISBN: 9781615793945 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "And so it begins, a detailed narrative laid bare . . . chicken feet and heads floating in soup, disturbing dreams of firing squads, octopus and beetle bugs piled on counters, hoards of vampire mosquitoes, pet puppies most villagers wanted to eat, 'sticky gobs of sweets on banana leaves, ' and everything covered with flies. Black pajamas and barefoot, unique and unorthodox, Hoch dazzled the Vietnamese as well as his superior officers. . . Hoch emerged a true hero, no small feat compared to what later Vietnam vets went through when they returned home." ''Make Me Whole Dai Uy' - A Search for...
"And so it begins, a detailed narrative laid bare . . . chicken feet and heads floating in soup, disturbing dreams of firing squads, octopus and beetl...
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139,09 zł |
Recovering from the War: A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends and Therapists
ISBN: 9781892220073 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,71 zł |