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Rolling thunder in a gentle land : the Vietnam War revisited / editor, Andrew Wiest.

Title
Rolling thunder in a gentle land : the Vietnam War revisited / editor, Andrew Wiest.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Osprey, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Wiest, Andrew A.
Description
336 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 26 cm.
Summary
Andrew Wiest has collected 15 uniformly excellent new essays by highly regarded scholars, veterans, and victims from differing military, political, and academic perspectives to present the Vietnam War in a global context.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-326) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : an American war? / Andrew Wiest -- The French Indochina War, 1946-54 / Martin Windrow -- Fight for the long haul : the war as seen by a soldier in the People's Army of Vietnam / Bui Tin -- The road south : the Ho Chi Minh Trail / John Prados -- The war outside Vietnam : Cambodia and Laos / Kenton Clymer -- A view from the other side of the story : reflections of a South Vietnamese soldier / Lam Quang Thi -- Caught in the crossfire : the civilian experience / Le Ly Hayslip and Dien Pham -- Diggers and Kiwis : Australian and New Zealand experience in Vietnam / Jeffrey Grey -- The conduct of the war : strategy, doctrine, tactics, and policy / Lewis Sorley -- On the ground : the US experience / Bernard Edelman -- "Swatting flies with a sledgehammer" : the air war / Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. -- Battle for the Mekong : the river war in Vietnam / R. Blake Dunnavent -- Tactics in a different war : adapting US doctrine / Gordon L. Rottman -- The "living-room war" : media and public opinion in a limited war / Daniel C. Hallin -- The final act -- and after : the legacy of war / Arnold R. Isaacs.
ISBN
  • 184603020X
  • 9781846930206 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • ^^2006297123
  • 9781846030208
OCLC
70128526
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library