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America in Vietnam /

Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lewy, Guenter, 1923-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980, ©1978.
Colección:A Galaxy book ; GB 601
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The roots of involvement
  • The big-unit war
  • The failure of attrition and pacification
  • Disengagement
  • The travail of Vietnamization
  • Vietnamization on trial: the collapse of South Vietnam
  • American military tactics and the law of war
  • Terrorism, counterinsurgency and genocide
  • Atrocities: fiction and fact
  • The punishment of atrocities and war crimes
  • The bombing of North Vietnam.