Description
Product ID: | 9781472116062 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Mammoth Books |
Title: | The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War |
Authors: | Author: Jon E. Lewis |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, History, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, War and defence operations, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Vietnam War, War & defence operations, Vietnam, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were ‘in country’ in Vietnam. Before America’s longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War was the first rock ’n’ roll war, the first helicopter war with its doctrine of ‘airmobility’, and the first television war; it made napalm and the defoliant Agent Orange infamous, and gave us the New Journalism of Michael Herr and others. It also saw the establishment of the Navy SEALs and Delta Force. At home, America fractured, with the peace movement protesting against the war; at Kent State University, Ohio National Guardsmen fired on unarmed students, killing four and injuring nine. |
Imprint Name: | Robinson |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-02-26 |