David Halberstam

The Making of a Quagmire

America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
Herausgeber: Singal, Daniel J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam-the Kennedy/Diem era-remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition, his...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780742560086
• ISBN-10: 0742560082
• Artikelnr.: 23146574

Autorenporträt

David Halberstam (1934-2007) was the author of 20 books, the last 14 of which have been national best-sellers. His most recent book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, is about the Chinese entry into the Korean War. He was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam and was a member of the elective Society of American Historians.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Edging Toward Calamity: Vietnam in the Early 1960s
Chapter 1: Coming into a Troubled Land Chapter 2: Latter-Day Mandarins: The
Ngo Family Chapter 3: A Strange Alliance: The Americans and Diem Part II:
The War in the Delta Chapter 4: In the Field with the ARVN Chapter 5:
Finding an Elusive Foe Chapter 6: Disaster: The Battle of Ap Bac Chapter 7:
Collapse in the Delta Part III: The Fall of the Diem Regime Chapter 8: The
Buddhist Revolt Begins Chapter 9: The Raid on the Pagodas Chapter 10: A
Slow Change in American Policy Chapter 11: The Saigon Press Controversy
Chapter 12: The Final Days of Ngo Dinh Diem Chapter 13: What Should Be Done
in Vietnam? Epilogue: Return to Vietnam