Light at the end of the tunnel : a Vietnam War anthology

Rotter, Andrew Jon. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0312045298
ISBN: 9780312045296
Physical Description: print
xiv, 586 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, c1991.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ho Chi Minh : the untried gamble / Robert Shaplen -- Moving toward commitment / Robert M. Blum -- An encounter with Ho Chi Minh / Archimedes L.A. Patti -- Eisenhower, Dulles and Dienbienphu : "The day we didn't go to war" revisited / George Herring and Richard Immerman -- Geneva, 1954 : the precarious peace / Ellen J. Hammer -- An American boost for Ngo Dinh Diem / Edward Geary Lansdale -- No "non-essential areas" : JFK and Vietnam / Herbert S. Parmet -- LBJ goes to war / George C. Herring -- The Tet Offensive / Larry Berman -- A dissenter in the government / George W. Ball -- Nixon's war / Stanley Karnow -- The failure of force / Gareth Porter -- The secret bombing of Cambodia / William Shawcross -- In defense of the Nixon policy / Henry Kissinger-- The making of a revolutionary / Truong Nhu Tang -- The communists' road to power / Douglas Pike -- The people and the Americans / Konrad Kellen -- The National Liberation Front and the land / Tom Mangold and John Penycate -- At the edge of sanity / Michael Herr -- Getting hit / Philip Caputo -- "They did not know good from evil" / Tim O'Brien -- A Black man in Vietman / Wallace Terry -- Assessing the military's performance / Bruce Palmer, Jr. -- Military mismanagement / Loren Baritz -- The question of American war guilt / Guenter Lewy -- A clash of cultures / Frances FitzGerald -- A bureaucratic tangle / James C. Thomson. Jr. -- A capitalist imperative / Gabriel Kolko -- A defense of freedom / Norman Podhoretz -- A systematic success / Leslie Gelb -- The draft and who escaped it / Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss -- The SDS and Vietnam / Nigel Young -- Women at the barricades, then and now / Myra MacPherson -- The number one story / Michael J. Arlen -- Covering the Gulf of Tonkin / Daniel Hallin -- The aftermath of communist victory / William J. Duiker -- A deserter and his family / Gloria Emerson -- Agent Orange and the wall at home / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Letting go / Le Ly Hayslip.