Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Morris Stephen J.)(Paperback)

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Morris Stephen J.)(Paperback)

On December 25, 1978, the armed forces of Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia. That event marked a turning point in the first and only extended war fought between two communist regimes. The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot's Khmers Rouge regime from its seat of power in Phnom Penh, but

Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War (Tyner James A.)(Paperback)

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic consequences on many fronts. In Cambodia, the invasion renewed calls for a government independent of western

Ho Chi Minh: A Life (Duiker William J.)(Pevná vazba)

To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in

Rethinking Camelot - JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture (Chomsky Noam (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology))(Paperback / softback)

In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyone persuaded that changing the world is simply a

A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (Holslag Jonathan)(Paperback)

A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has

The Stealers' War (Hunt Stephen)(Paperback)

Weyland has been at war. Invaded by a technologically advanced enemy, the cities sacked, and what fragile peace remained torn apart by a civil war. All anyone should want is a return to peace. But Jacob Carneham still wants his revenge; and if he can lure the invaders into the mountain he can have

Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam (Coonts Stephen)(Paperback)

The epic Vietnam War story of the multi-year air campaign to destroy Ho Chi Minh's 'Invincible' bridge--one of the most dramatic actions in aviation history Every war has its 'bridge'--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River Kwai, the

Stephen King and American Politics (Blouin Michael J.)(Paperback)

Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works force us question how America got into its current political crisis - and where it might go from

Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (Nguyen Lien-Hang T.)(Paperback)

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Fitzgerald Frances)(Paperback)

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, 'a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.' (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (Gallagher Gary W.)(Paperback)

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History posits the notion that the Confederacy was doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union, but its forces fought heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights. In reality, this was and is an elaborate and

Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and Effect (Pearl Judea)(Paperback / softback)

The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (Roszak Theodore)(Paperback)

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the

The Culture of My Stuff (Crothers Adam)(Paperback)

The Culture of My Stuff is a collection of sonnets, prose, and political nonsense rhymes. Light-footed and light-fingered, the poems piece the stuff of their culture into surreal polemic and elegy, compressing and exploding their 'various vocabularies.' Brexit, Trump, Northern Ireland, Komodo

The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (Gat Azar)(Pevná vazba)

Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight A marked shift in the balance between these options has occurred since the onset of the industrial age. Rather than modern war becoming more costly (it hasn't), it is peace that has become more rewarding

Tribe - On Homecoming and Belonging (Junger Sebastian)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society

Vietnam - An Epic History of a Tragic War (Hastings Max)(Paperback / softback)

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the

Time To Hunt (Hunter Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bob, 'the Nailer' Swagger is back in the warzone. Is it simply revenge, or does it go back further, to a dirty secret buried buried in the extraordinary times of the late sixties when ideologies clashed and America's bitter war was reaching its

A War State All Over: Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause (Severance Ben H.)(Pevná vazba)

An in-depth political study of Alabama's government during the Civil War Alabama's military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause. In his new study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben H. Severance argues that Alabama's electoral and political attitudes were, in

The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Kalyvas Stathis)(Paperback)

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (Tang Truong Nhu)(Paperback)

'An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era.'--Chicago Tribune When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought

The Second World War: 1939-45 (Hatt Christine)(Paperback)

The Second World War 1939-45 examines the causes of the war and details the course of the conflict in Western Europe, the USSR, Africa and the Pacific. It also describes the experiences of civilians, resistance fighters, prisoners of war and Holocaust

Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (Bryan-Wilson Julia)(Paperback)

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of creative labor by identifying themselves as 'art workers.' In the first book to examine this movement,

Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction (Hobson J. Allan)(Paperback)

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the