Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War by Hess, Gary R.

Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405125277)

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Format: Hardcover
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Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War by Hess, Gary R.

Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War

$108.95
Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War by Hess, Gary R.

Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War

$108.95
Format: Hardcover
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In Vietnam, Gary R. Hess describes and evaluates the main arguments of scholars, participants, and journalists, both revisionist and orthodox in their approach, as they try to answer fundamental questions of the Vietnam War.

  • Clearly examines the historiography of the Vietnam War

  • Questions whether the Vietnam War was lost due to poor strategy and leadership, or was inherently doomed to failure

  • Includes a bibliographic essay which complements the literature discussed in the text


Author: Gary R. Hess
ISBN-10: 1405125276
ISBN-13: 9781405125277
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
By Gary R. Hess
By Gary R. Hess
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Gary R. Hess is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and a former chair of the U.S. State Department's Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. His publications include Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War 1941-1945 (1998) and Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf (2001).

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