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" America in Vietnam / "
Guenter Lewy
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BL
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623477
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| Main Entry
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Lewy, Guenter,1923-
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America in Vietnam /\ Guenter Lewy
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xiii, 540 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0195023919
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: 9780195023916
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: 0195027329
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: 9780195027327
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The roots of involvement -- The big-unit war -- The failure of attrition and pacification -- Disengagement -- The travail of Vietnamization -- Vietnamization on trial: the collapse of South Vietnam -- American military tactics and the law of war -- Terrorism, counterinsurgency and genocide -- Atrocities: fiction and fact -- The punishment of atrocities and war crimes -- The bombing of North Vietnam -- Epilogue : The legacy of Vietnam
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| Abstract
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Chronicles American involvement in Vietnam, from the 1950s through the 1970s, documenting strategic and tactical failures and reviewing the charges made against the American conduct of the war
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- United States
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United States, History, 1945-
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| Dewey Classification
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959.704/3373
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DS558.L48
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