During the four years following passage of the tonkin gulf resolution aug. Maya lin revisits the wall she designed before ceremonies to commemorate the. Shop at noble knight games for full inventory products from architects of war. Robert strange mcnamara june 9, 1916 july 6, 2009 was an american business executive and the eighth united states secretary of defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under presidents john f. Burn and loot in vietnam armchair general and historynet. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. David k shipler article on visit to vietnam by robert k mcnamara, one of major architects of us war. Perhaps more targeted at the scholarly minded, this book collects official documents and private letters from a sea of sources. The greatest battle of the vietnam air war the air combat trilogy book 2 jeffrey ethell.
Mcnamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty. Six friends and the world they made is a nonfiction book authored by walter isaacson and evan thomas. In sharp contrast, graham devoted dozens of righteous pages to vilifying post press operators who went on strike in 1975. Shop architects has been selected as lead master planners and designers of the campus for fulbright university vietnam fuv to be located in ho chi minh city, vietnam. Art, memory, and the fight for a vietnam war memorial. Robert mcnamara, one of the us governments chief architects of the vietnam war, died today aged 93. The most articulate architects of it, who talk privately about what went wrong, have yet to say publicly they made a mistake.
Beautiful architectural photography presents the outstanding accomplishment of the people of southern vietnam in developing a midcentury modern architecture, vietnamese modernist architecture, that is extraordinary in the world. To graham, men like mcnamara and kissinger the main war architects for presidents lyndon johnson and richard nixon were wonderful human beings. F105 over vietnam rasimus green berets in the vanguard, 19531963 archer. We thought that we were going into another korean war, but this was a. Mcnamara had read kennedys book profiles in courage and asked him if he. More than 60 international architects, engineers and staff work closely on cultural, residential and commercial projects worldwide.
As the defence secretary to the presidents john f kennedy and lyndon johnson, he managed much of the daytoday conduct of the illfated war. The vietnamese culture embraced it because it represented their identity and optimistic outlook towards the future. The vietnam war mentions lost opportunities and hints at contradictions between stated and unstated aims, but on the whole it internalizes the cold war idiom of fighting for democracy and containing communism. Booktopia buy vietnam war books online from australias leading online bookstore. Vietnam war, 19611975 engineering and construction base development in south vietnam, 19651970 1991, by carroll h. Hirashiki, who worked for more than 40 years as an abc news cameraman, originally wrote and published the book in japanesehis native. Our books experts recommends 10 authors to read on the conflict.
We would be organized militarily, but we would have to break the bad habit, of trying to fight a conventional war in a guerrilla warfare environment. The book examines taylors entire cold war career, including the years when he was west point. Us soldiers, communist leaders, saigon loyalists, vietnamese peasants and even nixon himself. Robert mcnamara and the ghosts of vietnam the new york times. The panel was brought together to discuss hirashikis new book, on the frontlines of the television war. Realclearpolitics articles the left loses the vietnam war. I spoke to him at the university of southern california, where he is a professor of. Our vietnam provides a rare look at the secret maneuvering within hanois politburo, where an implacable southerner named le duan emerges as the man even more than the famous general giap.
He played a major role in escalating the united states involvement in the vietnam war. There is catch22, and slaughterhouse five, and these are classics to be sure. The companion volume to burns vietnam war documentary series on pbs, the book stands alone as a powerful summary of the whole conflict. If the architects of the vietnam war in the johnson administration can be criticized as moyar does for not doing enough to win the war, the later antiwar left actively pursued american defeat. Welcome to alpha historys selection of vietnam war books.
Others characterized him as the hawkish architect of american escalation in vietnam who pushed for the air war against north vietnam, yet conversely argued against the massive deployment of u. Handpicked by amazon kids books editor, seira wilson, for prime book box a. The newsmen shared stories about their decadeslong working relationships and ensuing friendships. Complete organized chaos for the new guys would begin as we landed in vietnam. The gulf of tonkin incident, used by lyndon johnson to escalate u. A new book suggests yes and offers advice for the war in afghanistan. Beyond that, on the fiction front, we quickly traipse into forgettable territory. The controversial architect of the vietnam war historynet. Purchasing these books through the book depository is a great way for you to save money, while supporting alpha history. After vietnam johns hopkins university press books. Journalists share vietnam experiences national archives. Three are novels, two of which were written by vietnam war veterans. Broadening the scheme the cfr is not a uniquely american phenomenon. Ten best books about the vietnam war broadly defined namarama.
Vietnam and the memory of the war, nguyen writes that all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Its extraordinarily wellreported and written, and filled with memorable photographs and illustrationsa reminder that the war was, perhaps for. There is, as with most cliches, at the center of this one a kernel of truth. The third largest hotel in the world and definitely the saddest happy building. The tragedy and lessons of vietnam, the recent memoir of the vietnam war by robert mcnamara, the american secretary of. About vtn architects vo trong nghia architects founded in 2006, vtn architects vo trong nghia architects is a leading architectural practice in vietnam with offices in ho chi minh city and hanoi. Hunts a vietnam war reader is a very different text to onans. It tells the story of the war from every conceivable angle, including that of the young vietnamese fighters. He has drawn on recently released documents and secret white house tapes to bring the architects of the war and the events of that time into sharp focus.
As general maxwell taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, first, we didnt know ourselves. All products from architects of war noble knight games. Efforts to understand the impact of the vietnam war on america began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. Perhaps the only decent thing to emerge from the vietnam war is a body of literature unsurpassed by the writing thats come out of any other war. Starting in the immediate postworld war ii period, the group developed the containment policy of dealing. The tale of the vietnam war, writes max hastings in the very first sentence of this powerful and chilling book, was. A navy journalists memoir of his 14 months with mcb 71, 196667, david h.
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