America's longest war : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

Author(s)

• Herring, George C.

Bibliographic Information

America's longest war : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

George C. Herring

（America in crisis）

McGraw-Hill, 1996

3rd ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Widely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy. The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to vital questions. This new edition has been necessitated not only by the development in the field, but also by dramatic change in the world in the time since the last edition.

Table of Contents

• A dead-end alley - the United States, France and the first Indochina War, 1950-1954
• our offspring - nation-building in South Vietnam, 1954-1961
• limited partnerhip - Kennedy and Diem, 1961-1963
• enough, but not too much - Johnson's decisions for war, 1963-1965
• on the tiger's back - the United States at war, 1965-1967
• a very near thing - the Tet Offensive and after, 1968
• a war for peace - Nixon, Kissinger and Vietnam, 1969-1973
• the "post-war" and the legacy of Vietnam.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA27806245
• ISBN:
  • 0070283931
• LCCN: 95016062
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 354 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS558
  • DC20 : 959.704/3373
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States
  • LCSH : Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
  • LCSH : Unisted States -- History -- 1945-
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
  • LCSH : Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11573341