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Afghan Tales: Stories from Russia's Vietnam

2 reviews
O. Ermakov, Oleg Yermakov

William Morrow & Co, 1993

Gritty war narratives
The dust, sweat, danger, and fatigue of soldiering in the Afghan plains and mountains comes through vividly, as does something of the social dynamics of Soviet infantry units. Strong sense of the least glamorous aspects of combat and military life.

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

3 reviews
James L.; III Holloway

US Naval I Press, 2007

Aircraft Carrier Operations
Admiral Holloway's story begins with a destroyer torpedo attack on a battleship during the Battle of Suriago Strait in WW II. At the time Holloway was a lieutenant assigned as the gunnery and torpedo officer in the destroyer USS Bennion. There is a rule of thumb in the Navy that a destroyer making a torpedo attack on a battleship in a sea battle has a life expectancy of less than five minutes ...

The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War

2 reviews
Ilya V. Gaiduk

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996

on this topic, by far the most insightful
the topic of soviet policy towards Vietnam is not a heavily researched one and the majority of what exists is heavily tainted by American views and a reliance on propaganda laced official statements of the Soviet government at the time. Gaiduk was one of few who was able to look at the Soviet declassified archives during the short time that they were open and thus his book is built on ...

Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963 (Cold War International History ...
Ilya Gaiduk

Stanford University Press, 2003

Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict. The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to ...

American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945

6 reviews
Douglas Little

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

very readable history of U.S. involvement in the mid-east
I discovered this book when a chapter from it appeared in a collection of readings for a college class on national security. The chapter, "America and Israel: the making of a special relationship" impressed me with its account of the events involving the two countries from before Israel's statehood. I've now read the entire book and find that chapter and another, "Opportunities Lost and Found" ...

Borrowing Court Systems (London-Leiden Series on Law, Administration and Development)
Nicholson, P.

BRILL, 2007

Drawing on legal culture, this book offers an English-language reading of Vietnamese court history from 1945 to the present day, including an analysis of the extent to which the DRVN courts (1945 - 1976) mirrored or diverged from the Soviet model.

Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared
Douglas Borer

Frank Cass, 1999

Was Afghanistan the Soviet Vietnam? Was Vietnam the American Afghanistan? During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the crucial importance of war in global power dynamics. After approximately a decade of intense effort, military intervention proved too costly in human and material terms to be politically sustainable for the USA and USSR. In the end, both superpowers were thwarted in obtaining their original war ...

Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam

53 reviews
Vladislav Tamarov

Mercury House, 1992

a must for anyone interested in Afghan military history
As a paratrooper currently serving my second tour in Afghanistan (and third in the desert overall), I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Soviet conflict of the 1980s. The photographs provide insight into Afghanistan's terrain and climate, and I used this book to illustrate several points to my subordinates as we were preparing for this deployment. The author's writing is ...

The Making of Detente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam
Keith L. Nelson

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

In the early 1970s, largely as a result of the debilitating struggle in Vietnam, the United States began to reassess and redefine its basic approach to East-West relations. At the same time, the Soviet Union was awakening to the liabilities that a continuing and unregulated state of hostility would impose on its own internal and external agenda. Keith Nelson details the circumstanc~es and traces the steps that led to the first significant ...

The Soviet Union, Vietnam and China, 1949-64: Changing Alliances (Cass Series--Cold War History)
Mari Olsen

Routledge, 2006

This book analyzes Chinese influence on Soviet policies toward Vietnam and shows how China, beginning in the late 1940s, was assigned the role as the main link between Moscow and Hanoi. Drawing on new information on Sino-Soviet-Vietnamese relationship in the early 1960s this volume offers a fascinating insight into communication within the communist camp. As long as this functioned well, Beijing's role as Moscow's major partner in Vietnam was a ...

Looking for the Enemy
Michael D Morrissey, 2007

Morrissey makes the case in great detail that President Kennedy was killed because he wanted to withdraw from Vietnam, and analyzes a long correspondence between Noam Chomsky and himself on the subject. In a careful analysis of official government documents, the author shows that the CIA sabotaged their own 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, in the hope of trapping Kennedy into a full-scale war. Other explosive issues dealt with here include: - ...

Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963.(Book Review): An article from: ...
David Chandler

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 625 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina ...

To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War

1 review
John Fousek

The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

"Cold War As Culture War"
Over a decade after the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War continues to fascinate both scholars and members of the reading public. David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman, which in part told of the modest man from Missouri's fiesty determination to stand up to Soviet provocations in the dangerous early years of the Cold War, was immensely popular in the early 1990s, and Blind Man's ...

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