DIGIRENT - Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War
James H. Willbanks
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Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks epub Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks pdf download Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks pdf file Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks audiobook Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks book review Abandoning Vietnam: How America James H. Willbanks summary | #2335200 in Books | University Press of Kansas | 2004-07-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.42 x6.28 x9.22l,1.66 | File type: PDF | 390 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Solid analysis at the operational and strategic level - from a US perspective|By Peter Monks|While Willbanks' personal experience as an US Army advisor to the ARVN was strictly at the tactical level, his "Abandoning Vietnam" is a thorough examination of the political constraints and the strategic/operational decisions of the US and South Vietnamese governments from the election||"Recommended to the scholar and to the general reader alike."|From the Back Cover|Easily surpasses previous books on the same period of the war. . . . An excellent and valuable addition to the history of the Vietnam War.--
Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic "defeat with shame"? While James Willbanks doesn't offer any easy answers to that question, his book convincingly shows why America's strategy for exiting the Vietnam War failed miserably and left South Vietnam to a dismal fate.
That strategy, "Vietnamization,"...
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