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A Companion to the Vietnam War
Wiley 2008; US$ 218.95A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history,... more...
Bombing Civilians
New Press, The 2010; US$ 19.95Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of... more...
Howard Zinn on War
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 16.95Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually... more...
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts... more...
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam
New Press, The 2011; US$ 16.95From the launch of the ?Shock and Awe? invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush?s declaration of ?Mission Accomplished? two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of Vietnam. This new book makes clear that something closer to the opposite is true?that U.S. foreign... more...
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