Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by
Into the quagmire : Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War
Author:
ISBN: 0195096509 9780195096507 1423740572 9781423740575 1280451203 9781280451201 0195357191 9780195357196 0198022980 1602560412 0199880042 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by ""chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in the social structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government."" Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigon could defeat the communist insurgency--and yet by July of 1965, a mere nine months later, they would lock the United States


Book
Into the quagmire : Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War
Author:
ISBN: 0195065069 9780195065060 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In retrospect : the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0812925238 0712676821 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Times Books


Book
In retrospect : the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam
Authors: ---
Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Vintage Books

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Vietnam

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by