The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War, by David Zierler, provides an examination of the first great ideological battle between nascent environmentalism and cold war dogmatism
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Nov. 17 – Dec. 10: Connecticut artist exhibits 242 Vietnam war casualty portraits inspired by 1969 Life magazine story
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie‘s 242 portraits of […]
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Book Review – F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War, by Peter E. Davies and David W. Menard
Sheds some light on an early workhorse, and warhorse, of the air war in Indochina–the first Western jet fighter capable of sustained Mach 1 flight
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How Nixon Almost Won the Vietnam War
The 1972 Battle of An Loc proved that the United States had found the key to victory.
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Book Review – The Vietnam War-An Assessment by South Vietnam’s Generals, ed. with essays by Lewis Sorley
Among the most neglected viewpoints of the war have been those of the Republic of Vietnam, which the U.S. largely created, propped up, manipulated and finally abandoned.
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Book Review – The Vietnam War-A Chronology of War, ed. by Col. Raymond Bluhm Jr.
A day-to-day history of the U.S. armed forced in the Vietnam War, including many iconic and seldom-seen photos.
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DVD Review – Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories
Vietnam War Stories is a collection of oral histories by Wisconsin’s Vietnam War veterans, complimented with a selection of historic film footage. The DVD offers a good overview of the history of the Vietnam War.
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Book Review – The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, edited by David L. Anderson
The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a collection of 14 essays by respected scholars that examines historical themes with contemporary relevance
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Book Review – B-57 Canberra Units of the Vietnam War
B-57Bs flew their first real combat missions, and the first bomb strike by jet aircraft on South Vietnamese soil, in 1965. Their exploits and incursions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail into Laotian air space were buried in secrecy.
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Rumsfeld’s Challenge to Johnson on the Vietnam War
After a briefing with LBJ on Vietnam in 1966, Rep. Rumsfeld wrote that the president was “up and down like a yo-yo”