Retracting the confused and inconsistent pattern of planning for escalation of the Vietnam War, the author reconstructs the events of the night of August 4 1964, when the US Navy destroyers "Maddox" and "Turner Joy" reported they were under attack by North Vietnamese troops in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically doctrinaire socialist tyranny to almost doctrineless social-capitalism, China has experienced political, cultural and economic disintegration, reunion, and revolution on an unprecedented scale. ...
One of the purposes of this book is to reexamine geometry, to clean up behind introductory courses, furnishing valid definitions and valid proofs for concepts and theorems which were already known, at least in some sense and some form.
There is an evident need to see things more clearly, but without simplifying what was inherently a very complex war, which engulfed not only the United States and Vietnam, but their respective allies and other countries in Indochina, namely Laos and Cambodia. This task is undertaken by The A to Z Guide of the Vietnam War, first in its chronology, ...
The author highlights the essential elements, presenting significant persons (military and political), battles and confrontations, weapons, places and events. The chronology traces the long course of the war and the introduction discusses the issues that have been and still are in dispute among historians. Also contains a bibliography, an index of ...
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