Light at the end of the tunnel : a Vietnam War anthology /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rotter, Andrew Jon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1991]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ho Chi Minh : the untried gamble / Robert Shaplen
  • Moving toward commitment / Robert M. Blum
  • An encounter with Ho Chi Minh / Archimedes L.A. Patti
  • Eisenhower, Dulles and Dienbienphu : "The day we didn't go to war" revisited / George Herring and Richard Immerman
  • Geneva, 1954 : the precarious peace / Ellen J. Hammer
  • An American boost for Ngo Dinh Diem / Edward Geary Lansdale
  • No "non-essential areas" : JFK and Vietnam / Herbert S. Parmet
  • LBJ goes to war / George C. Herring
  • The Tet Offensive / Larry Berman
  • A dissenter in the government / George W. Ball
  • Nixon's war / Stanley Karnow
  • The failure of force / Gareth Porter
  • The secret bombing of Cambodia / William Shawcross
  • In defense of the Nixon policy / Henry Kissinger-- The making of a revolutionary / Truong Nhu Tang
  • The communists' road to power / Douglas Pike
  • The people and the Americans / Konrad Kellen
  • The National Liberation Front and the land / Tom Mangold and John Penycate
  • At the edge of sanity / Michael Herr
  • Getting hit / Philip Caputo
  • "They did not know good from evil" / Tim O'Brien
  • A Black man in Vietman / Wallace Terry
  • Assessing the military's performance / Bruce Palmer, Jr.
  • Military mismanagement / Loren Baritz
  • The question of American war guilt / Guenter Lewy
  • A clash of cultures / Frances FitzGerald
  • A bureaucratic tangle / James C. Thomson. Jr.
  • A capitalist imperative / Gabriel Kolko
  • A defense of freedom / Norman Podhoretz
  • A systematic success / Leslie Gelb
  • The draft and who escaped it / Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss
  • The SDS and Vietnam / Nigel Young
  • Women at the barricades, then and now / Myra MacPherson
  • The number one story / Michael J. Arlen
  • Covering the Gulf of Tonkin / Daniel Hallin
  • The aftermath of communist victory / William J. Duiker
  • A deserter and his family / Gloria Emerson
  • Agent Orange and the wall at home / Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Letting go / Le Ly Hayslip.