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In retrospect: the tragedy and lessons of vietnam
Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, helped lead America into Vietnam. McNamara believed that the fight against communism in Asia was worth the sacrifice of American lives, and yet he eventually came to believe that the war was, in fact, unwinnable. Outnumbered by those who wanted to continue fighting, he left the Johnson administration and his involvemen…
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- 9780679767497
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- xviii, 414 p. : ill., portraits, maps ; 25 cm.
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- SS 959.704 MCN i
The quiet american
This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission
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- 9780143039020
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- xx, 180 p ; 22 cm.
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- Penguin classics
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- A F GRE q
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