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The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the 20th century. Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, distinguished scholar Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in... [ More...]
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Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In" Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife," Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl— a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq— considers the now-crucial... [ More...]
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"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre."... [ More...]
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Now in paperback comes the "New York Times" bestseller on the catastrophic eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, and its lasting and world-changing effects. 57 line drawings. 18 halftones & maps.
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In 1983 three priests—among them Irishman Niall O'Brien —together with six lay leaders were arrested in the Philippines on a false charge of murder. The government of Ferdinand Marcos hoped in this way to silence those within the church who were... [ More...]
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This book gathers the testimony of seventy eyewitnesses, including students, TV media figures, Vietnamese generals, pilots, and numerous others to provide a harrowing, first-hand account of a major event in modern history: the fall ofSaigon. 30 halftones.
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A Vietnamese-American woman provides an extraordinary narrative woven from the lives of four generations of her family that illuminates fascinating—and until now unexplored—strands of Vietnamese history. Photos.
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In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take on human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of... [ More...]
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In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers... [ More...]
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More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations... [ More...]
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