THE VIETNAM WAR 1945-1975
THE VIETNAM WAR 1945-1975

THE VIETNAM WAR 1945-1975

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From the end of the Second World War to the fall of Saigon in 1975, John Prados delivers the only complete account and the first comprehensive analysis of the Vietnam War.

Drawing on recently declassified documents and a wide range of Vietnamese and international sources, the author paints a sweeping masterpiece in which ideologies and armies clash. He explains how and why the various American presidencies, from Truman to Nixon, via Kennedy and Johnson, simultaneously misread North Vietnamese realities, misunderstood their South Vietnamese allies, dismissed the antiwar movement and underestimated the growing impact of the media on public opinion.

Engaged in a conflict they could not win, Republicans and Democrats alike failed to find a way out of the tragic scenario into which America was sinking.

By turns a gripping narrative, an innovative essay and a moving personal testimony, this monumental work provides the definitive assessment of a groundbreaking war that shook the United States and altered the global balance of power.

 

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Author 1
John Prados
Publication date
October 2011
Pages
836
Cover
Paperback
Publisher
PERRIN
EAN
9782262033873

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