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Vietnam The Definitive Oral History Told From All Sides Christian G Appy

SKU: BELL-42859808

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

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Vietnam The Definitive Oral History Told From All Sides Christian G Appy instant download after payment.

Publisher: Ebury

File Extension: PDF

File size: 33.92 MB

Pages: 574

Author: Christian G. Appy

ISBN: 9780001910112

Language: English

Year: 2006

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Vietnam The Definitive Oral History Told From All Sides Christian G Appy by Christian G. Appy 9780001910112 instant download after payment.

This comprehensive book exceeded my expectations. Often reviewers say that they couldn't put down a certain book and had to read it through from start to finish in one sitting. This book wasn't one of those "un-put-downable" books. At 550 pages you couldn't read it in one night. In fact, the interviews are so powerful and express so many points of view on the Vietnam War that I didn't want the book to end and I took my time reading it. Most of the people interviewed in the book vividly described or analysed perspectives on the 13-year war that revealed how damaging, costly and ultimately pointless the war was.

Having just spent two weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia this April, I saw everywhere the consequences of the aggression America took against such a small country. About two million Vietnamese were killed in the war, half of them soldiers, the other half innocent non-combatants. 58,000 American military personnel lost their lives in that enormous mistaken attempt to stop Communism from being adopted in that country. The US bombing in Cambodia destabilized the government there and gave rise to Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rogue resulting in the deaths of about 2 million Cambodians.

Drawing on 350 interviews the author produced a superb record of the complex events. He provided the lucid connecting discussion to link the interviews. I was a university student during the start of the hostilities; most of us students opposed the war from the outset and demonstrated against it whenever we could. During one such demonstration at Kent State University, on 4 May 1970, 43 years ago, 4 university students demonstrating against the widening of the Vietnam War by bombing in Cambodia, that Nixon had begun secretly on his own initiative, were shot dead by the Ohio National Guard and seven more were wounded when these soldiers fired into the non-violent crowd on campus. Afterwards I went with the Kent State students to protest at the White House the deaths and injuries of the

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