| Description |
xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Forward / Dennis Showalter -- Introduction: Historians and the Vietnam War / Andrew Wiest -- The Vietnam War in an Asian perspective -- The Vietnamese Civil War of 1955-75 in historical perspective / Keith W. Taylor -- Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam reconsidered / Philip E. Catton -- What we still do not know : Moyar's treatment of global communism / William Stueck -- A one-sided picture of the Chinese-Vietnamese ties during the Vietnam War / Qiang Zhai -- Section I response / Mark Moyar -- Debating Triumph forsaken as history -- Triumph impossible / James Dingeman -- Fighting stories / Charles Hill -- Imperial revanchism : attempting to recover a post-war "noble cause" / Scott Laderman -- Triumph forsaken as a path to setting the record straight / Robert Turner -- Governing the Vietnamese "masses" : the United States, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the notion of Triumph forsaken / Jessica M. Chapman -- Triumph forsaken as military history / Andrew James Birtle -- Section II response / Mark Moyar -- Orthodoxy and revisionism -- Orthodox and revisionism : the domino theory as a case study / David Anderson -- Caricature for caricature? : the Vietnamese context in Triumph forsaken / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- Familiar territory : Mark Moyar's call to revisionism and the counterfactual / Michael Lind -- Throwing down the gauntlet : Triumph forsaken and the revisionist challenge / James McAllister -- Ngo Dinh Diem and Vietnam War revisionism in Mark Moyar's Triumph forsaken / Edward Miller -- Section III response / Mark Moyar -- Conclusion / Michael Doidge |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Moyar, Mark, 1971- Triumph forsaken
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Historiography.
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| Author |
Doidge, Michael.
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Wiest, Andrew A.
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| LC no. |
2009046037 |
| ISBN |
041580020X (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415800218 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780415800204 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415800211 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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