In Landmark Speeches of the Vietnam War, Gregory Allen Olson has woven together 14 speeches from 1945-1971 that offer readers key insights to the war. It shows a broad spectrum of positions and the evolution of policy and protest related to Vietnam
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Book Review – F-105 Thunderchief Units of the Vietnam War, by Peter Davies
F-105 Thunderchief by Peter Davies, part of Osprey’s Combat Aircraft series, details the supersonic bombing mainstay of the Vietnam War, forever associated with Operation Rolling Thunder, and describes the F-105’s hazardous missions over Vietnam
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Book Review – Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans, by Xiaobing Li
Voices from the Vietnam War, by Xiaobing Li, is the first oral history of the war to include Chinese and Russian veterans, among those from the U.S. and Vietnam. One of the voices is a former KGB spy assigned to the Russian Embassy in Hanoi
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Book Review – Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, edited by Michael H. Hunt
Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives edited by Michael H. Hunt is a collection of 102 documents aimed to help students and teachers gain an understanding of the war, its impact and longterm consequences
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Deliberate Distortions Still Obscure Understanding of the Vietnam War
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr., the founding editor of Vietnam magazine, clears up some of the deliberate distortions that continue to obscure understanding of the Vietnam War
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My Lai – Vietnam War Controversy on PBS’ American Experience
On April 26, 2010, The American Experience series examines the 1968 massacre of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam War and contributes to our understanding of why atrocities, and our attempts to cover them up, occur in wartime.
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Book Review: Valley of Death, Dien Bien Phu and the Vietnam War
David T. Zabecki reviews Ted Morgan’s 2010 book about Dien Bien Phu and the early development of the Vietnam War.
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In the Chaos of the Vietnam War, There Was One Thing You Could Rely On: Bob Hope’s Christmas Tours
The shows, featuring popular entertainers, were filmed live on air bases and ships, and the edited footage was broadcast as a television special in January.
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What’s Your Number? The Vietnam War Selective Service Lottery
How would you have done in the 1970 Vietnam draft lottery, in a drawing held the night of December 1, 1969, and carried live over the radio and television? Find out how prominent figures born between 1944 and 1950 fared.
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How American Operatives Saved the Man Who Started the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh guerrilla fighters, led by future NVA General Vo Nguyen Giap, were allies of the Americans and given training by the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, in an effort to defeat the Japanese during the waning days of World War II