A Time for War

The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-512501-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt American culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder their long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia.

Now eminent historian Robert D. Schulzinger has combed the newly available documentary evidence, both in public and private archives, to produce an ambitious, masterful account of three decades of war in Vietnam. Ranging from the first rumblings against the French to the American intervention and ultimate withdrawal, Schulzinger paints a brilliant political, diplomatic, and social portrait of this tragic, diverse conflict. In a field crowded with fiction, memoirs, and popular tracts, it will stand as the landmark history of America's longest war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulzinger, Robert D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Über Autor(innen)

Robert D. Schulzinger is Professor of History and Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado.