Convoy Ambush Case Studies
ISBN: 9781780390246 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides detailed case studies from the Vietnam war and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Provides detailed case studies from the Vietnam war and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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83,56 zł |
Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780415673785 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore's attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and turns and the nuances in the attitudes of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore following the development of the war from the 1950s through to its end in 1975. Although the principal focus is the three supposedly non-aligned countries - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the perspectives of... This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore's attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generall... |
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270,89 zł |
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780804778848 / Angielski / Twarda / 936 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. Antiwar critics claimed President Johnson had bungled (or, worse, deliberately sabotaged) a breakthrough by bombing Hanoi on the eve of a planned secret U.S.-North Vietnamese encounter in Poland. Yet, LBJ and top aides angrily insisted that Poland never... Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiat... |
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228,69 zł |
Indefinite Ocean: Adventures of a Fifteen-Year-Old Vietnamese Fugitive
ISBN: 9781462017164 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine growing up in a land where your government proudly tricks and imprisons its own citizens ... where city officers rob and confiscate their citizens' houses out of greed-legally ... where the local authorities monitor not only how much food each family can eat, but what they will eat. After four years of living under the brutal Vietnamese Communist government, one brave young girl has had enough. At fifteen, she sets out for the most unforgettable journey of her life, all alone and with only three sets of clothes to her name. Her faith, optimism, and humor give her the strength to fight...
Imagine growing up in a land where your government proudly tricks and imprisons its own citizens ... where city officers rob and confiscate their citi...
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87,11 zł |
Indefinite Ocean: Adventures of a Fifteen-Year-Old Vietnamese Fugitive
ISBN: 9781462017188 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine growing up in a land where your government proudly tricks and imprisons its own citizens ... where city officers rob and confiscate their citizens' houses out of greed-legally ... where the local authorities monitor not only how much food each family can eat, but what they will eat. After four years of living under the brutal Vietnamese Communist government, one brave young girl has had enough. At fifteen, she sets out for the most unforgettable journey of her life, all alone and with only three sets of clothes to her name. Her faith, optimism, and humor give her the strength to fight...
Imagine growing up in a land where your government proudly tricks and imprisons its own citizens ... where city officers rob and confiscate their citi...
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128,69 zł |
Vietnam and the West
ISBN: 9780877277828 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country s political and military responses to the aggressions of foreign powers, such as those marking the French colonial period (1862 1954) and the U.S.-Vietnam war. The nine essays in this volume take a different approach. Rather than assuming a clash between Vietnamese and Western civilizations, they examine the ways in which the Vietnamese have reformulated conceptions of the West within their own cultural context. In essays examining Catholicism, medicine, literature, gender relations, labor unions, the... Early studies of Vietnam's relationship with the West tended to focus on the country s political and military responses to the aggressions of forei... |
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582,03 zł |
Desertion in the Time of Vietnam: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780803239814 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small Nebraska town, had an exciting job as a reporter for the Miami Herald, and was in love with his beautiful Cuban American girlfriend. As the war in Vietnam drew closer, he assumed that he would fight, as the men in his family had always fought, though he was increasingly troubled by America s role there. His oldest friend, who had just returned from Vietnam, pleaded with Jack to dodge the draft and go to Canada, but Jack entered the army. He had almost completed basic...
In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small Nebraska town, had an exciting job ...
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78,79 zł |
Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
ISBN: 9780813135786 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the American engagement in Laos evolved from a small cold war skirmish into a superpower confrontation near the end of President Eisenhower's second term. Ultimately, the American experience in Laos foreshadowed many of the mistakes made by the United States in Vietnam in the 1960s. In... In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in n... |
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180,63 zł |
Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
ISBN: 9780813136608 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Johns argues that recent scholars of the Vietnam War have grossly underestimated the importance of partisan politics, election-year maneuvering, and domestic political culture in their understanding of the origins and escalation of America's longest war. In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Johns evaluates the profound influence of the Republican Party - its congressional leadership, governors, elder statesmen, grass-roots organizations, as well as Richard Nixon's administration - on the prosecution of the war. Beginning his analysis in 1961...
Andrew Johns argues that recent scholars of the Vietnam War have grossly underestimated the importance of partisan politics, election-year maneuvering...
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135,47 zł |
Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
ISBN: 9780230340022 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Vietnam amid the War on Terror argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, history, and national purpose. The book contends that these narratives trouble not only the jingoism pervasive in American culture, but also it's opposite-the ubiquitous cynicism about American national identity one encounters from within and without the halls of academe. The creative, controversial, and interdisciplinary approach will make this study of interest not only to scholars working in the growing field of contemporary...
Reading Vietnam amid the War on Terror argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of Amer...
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191,85 zł |
One More Sunrise: Memoir of a Combat Infantryman in Viet Nam
ISBN: 9781456754426 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting of the war. This book is his story. Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long career in the electrical industry, he is retired and lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife.
After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six mont... |
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98,91 zł |
Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos
ISBN: 9781588342966 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else wanted, but the ones all other pilots prayed for when shot down. Flying the World War II-vintage Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a single-engine, propeller-driven relic in a war of "fast-movers," these intrepid US Air Force pilots, call sign Sandy, risked their lives with every mission to rescue thousands of downed Navy and Air Force pilots. With a flashback memory and a style all his own, George J. Marrett depicts some of the most dangerous aerial...
They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else w...
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103,74 zł |
Rain: A Sailor's Story
ISBN: 9781614342946 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just graduated from high school, Elliott joins the Navy to take advantage of the G.I. bill for college. The Vietnam war was just starting and he knows nothing about it. Nobody does. Within a few months, he learns firsthand what it is all about.
Just graduated from high school, Elliott joins the Navy to take advantage of the G.I. bill for college. The Vietnam war was just starting and he knows...
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83,59 zł |
Air War over South Vietnam 1968-1975
ISBN: 9781780394442 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000 by the United States Air Force History History and Museums program, this official history deals with the role of the United States Air Force in advising the South Vietnamese Air Force and waging war in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from 1968 through 1975. Illustrated with maps and photos.
First published in 2000 by the United States Air Force History History and Museums program, this official history deals with the role of the United St...
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165,63 zł |
Rethinking the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780333984901 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This incisive new text provides a broad-ranging reassessment of the Vietnam war and its political and historical significance for America, Vietnam itself, their allies, the region and the world. John Dumbrell re-examines recurrent myths and assumptions and highlights areas of dispute still outstanding today. This incisive new text provides a broad-ranging reassessment of the Vietnam war and its political and historical significance for America, Vietnam ... |
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702,44 zł |
Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
ISBN: 9780815625582 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the movement. It examines how the activities of the movement affected the lives of most Americans.
This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants ...
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268,25 zł |
Until the Last Man Comes Home: Pows, Mias, and the Unending Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780807872727 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.
Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.... Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small ...
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196,47 zł |
The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia. 1945-1965
ISBN: 9781782663713 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With full color maps, photographs and illustrations throughout.
With full color maps, photographs and illustrations throughout.
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110,32 zł |
Wrestling with Asia: A Memoir - Frank Mount
ISBN: 9781921421679 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and engrossing book should be read by anyone with an interest in the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia and Australia's relations with the region. It offers exciting behind-the-scenes insights into: - The Vietnam War and its strategic importance to the region - Ted Serong, the CIA and the Phoenix Program in Vietnam - The Rise and Fall of Soeharto - Bob Santamaria, the Pacific Institute and the Asia Pacific Community - The growth of regional co-operation leading to ASEAN and APEC - Democratisation and the Rise of Radical Islam - And Much More Follow Frank through the war zones of...
This fascinating and engrossing book should be read by anyone with an interest in the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia and Australia's relations with the r...
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162,76 zł |
Protecting, Isolating, and Controlling Behavior Population and Resource Control Measures in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
ISBN: 9781780398693 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classical counterinsurgency theorists emphasize that it is necessary for the government to gain and maintain control of the population in order to defeat the insurgency. They describe population and resource control measures as a means of doing so. However, some contemporary writers have questioned the legitimacy of such tactics and doubt that they can be employed effectively in modern campaigns. Four case studies from three different campaigns: the Philippines, Vietnam, and Iraq, examine how population and resource control measures can be employed effectively and legitimately by the...
The classical counterinsurgency theorists emphasize that it is necessary for the government to gain and maintain control of the population in order to...
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110,32 zł |