YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
Essays 151 - 180
Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...
could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...
Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...
a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
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to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...
San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...
ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...
together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...
U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...
Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...