The Vietnam Experience

越南战争简介

越南战争(1961年~1975年)

简称:越战

又称:第二次印度支那战争

现越南政府称之为:抗美救国战争,为新民主主义的越南民主共和国(北越)及“越南南方民族解放阵线”(所谓越共)反抗美国及其傀儡政权越南共和国(南越)的战争。

越战是二战以后美国参战人数最多、影响最重大的战争,也是美国完败的一场战争(虽然美国政府自称是“光荣的撤退”)。

越战是冷战中的“一次热战”,希望统一越南的南方反政府军“民族解放阵线”在北越领导人胡志明的支持下,反对南越吴庭艳政府。美国则出兵帮助南越。

系列图书简介

  • Setting the stage

    作者(Author) : Edward Doyle

    出版社(Publisher) : Silver Burdett Pr

    申东价:30.00

    内容简介:

    On behalf of Boston Publishing Company, it gives me great pleasure to send you Setting the Stage. I hope that you receive as much enjoyment from reading it as we had preparing it for you. Vietnam. For more than a decade, news from that far-off country dominated the headlines and, for many of us, our lives. Daily events from mysterious-sounding cities like Da Nang, Kontum, and Hue blazed across newspapers while evening newscasts related the latest casualty figures, battles, and peace talk developments. Over three million Americans traveled halfway across the world to fight in Vietnam while many more participated in the decision making and demonstrations at home.

  • Raising the Stakes

    作者(Author) : Terrence Maitland

    出版社(Publisher) : Boston Publishing Company

    申东价:30.00

    内容简介:

    Only three weeks earlier Washington had come to the conclusion that the U.S.-sponsored regime of Ngo Dinh Diem could not survive the mounting military and political pressure of the Vietcong insurgents without substantially increased military aid and ex- pertise. Fending off requests from Saigon and from his own advisers for an American combat task force, President John Kennedy had agreed to dispatch mili- tary personnel and equipment for advisory and com- bat support duties. During the next twelve months American men and machines would help halt the in- surgent advance and, at least for a moment, seem to turn the tide of war for the first time in Saigon s favor.

  • America Takes Over

    作者(Author) : Edward Doyle

    出版社(Publisher) : Time Life UK

    申东价:30.00

    内容简介:

    Airborne Brigade landed in Vung Tau, at the mouth of the Saigon River. They would ~oen establish their headquarters at Bien Hoa, twelve miles north of Saigon, guarding the airfield there. At the same time, the marines were establishing their third tactical area of responsibility (TAOR) at a newly constructed airfield in Chu Lai (see map, page 14). By the end of May approximately 20,000 American combat troops-seven marine battalions and supporting units and two army battalions-had swollen the ranks of ~erican forces in Vietnam to 46,500. The troops were digging in to fight a war. But the com- bat troops of the American armed forces represented only the head of a body with a very l

    ong tail-the logistical sup- port. The marines had been the first to take on a combat role.

  • Combat Photographer

    作者(Author) : Nick Mills

    出版社(Publisher) : Time Life Education

    申东价:30.00

    内容简介:

    Not only was Vietnam America s longest war. It was also the most photographed. A veritable army of photographers from around the world focused their still, cin- ema, and TV cameras on South and North Vietnam and showered many millions of images onto the public consciousness. Uninhibited by censorship and free to ven- ture wherever their courage or their competitiveness took them, photographers cov- ering the South Vietnamese and American side of the war compiled a visual record that is unprecedented for its breadth and candor. Among those who compiled that record were the more than 1,500 soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, and airmen who were assigned the front and the rear as combat photographers. This book shows the war and the people and the country of Vietnam as they captured it on film.