Description

• Title:
  A Review and Evaluation of Recent Scholarship on America’s War in Vietnam
• Creator:
  Jervis, David
• Contributor:
  Żakowski, Karol;
  Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
• Description:
  This review examines three recently-published books about the Vietnam War: Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, and Brian VanDeMark, Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam. As indicated by the books’ titles, they all depict the war as a ‘tragedy,’ ‘a disaster,’ etc. The review will detail their explanations for the Vietnam tragedy and evaluate the alternatives they suggest.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  © Copyright by by Authors, Łódź 2020; © Copyright for this edition by University of Łódź, Łódź 2020
• Date:
  2021.03.16;
  2020
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  New Dynamics in Asia;;
  Contemporary Asian Studies Series;
• Subject:
  Vietnam War;
  Edward Lansdale;
  decision-making theories;
  counterinsurgency
• Identifier:
  Jervis D., A Review and Evaluation of Recent Scholarship on America’s War in Vietnam, [w:] Żakowski K., New Dynamics in Asia, „Contemporary Asian Studies Series”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020, s. 13-25, doi: 10.18778/8220-183-3.02;
  978-83-8220-183-3;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/34215 ;
  978-83-8220-184-0;
  10.18778/8220-183-3.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text