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A Noble Cause? Gerard J. De Groot

A Noble Cause? By Gerard J. De Groot

A Noble Cause? by Gerard J. De Groot


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Summary

This volume examines the military events, the political and strategic contexts and the social and cultural impact of the Vietnam War. It highlights the flaws in US strategy and the legacy of the war for both the USA and Vietnam.

A Noble Cause? Summary

A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War by Gerard J. De Groot

Few wars have had such a deep impact on the American people than the Vietnam War.Gerard de Groot's clear-eyed treatment covers the military events, the political and strategic contexts, as well as the social and cultural impact of the war. It's a powerful study which offers fresh insights into the communist revolution and military tactics, the flaws in US strategy and the legacy of the war both for Vietnam and America. An important new study on a subject often masked by sentiment and myth.

A Noble Cause? Reviews

It should be read by all students studying the War History Today DeGroot has written an excellent general work on the American war in Vietnam Journal of American history

Table of Contents

The white man is finished in Asia; ask not...; the Vietnamese Ally; the Vietnamese enemy; limited war; turning point? - Tet and the 1968 election; rolling thunder; peace with honour?; the fall of Saigon; an American defeat; a grunt's life; muddled actors in a theater of the absurd; a country, not a war; remembering and forgetting.

Additional information

GOR002561748
9780582287174
0582287170
A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War by Gerard J. De Groot
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
19990907
408
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