Vietnam, Stanley Karnow
Vietnam, Stanley Karnow
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Vietnam
A History

Author: Stanley Karnow

Narrator: Edward Holland

Unabridged: 27 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of Americas war in Vietnam. The books central theme is that Americas leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decisionmaking process in Washington and Asia and recounts the political and military events that occurred after the Americans arrived in Vietnam. Throughout, he focuses on people, those who shaped strategy and those who suffered, died, or survived as a result. Panoramic in scope and filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with hundreds of participants on both sides, Vietnam: A History transcends the past with lessons relevant to the present and future.

About Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow was born in New York and graduated from Harvard in 1947. He began his journalistic career in Paris in 1950 as a Time correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, and NBC News and was later an editor for the New Republic. He has written a number of books, including the bestselling Vietnam: A History and the Pulitzer Prize–winning In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines. He lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on August 12, 2021

A very impressive journalistic piece of work that is very well written. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to get an overview of the subject. It is just mindboggling to think, as painful of an experience the Vietnam War was for the United States, what the toll was like on Vietnam. Vietnam was a b......more

Goodreads review by Julio on October 28, 2023

"I'd rather smell French shit for fifty years than Chinese shit for one thousand".---Ho Chi Minh, responding to a proposal that Viet Nam be reunified under Chinese Nationalist control, 1946. Uncle Ho knew his history, and history told him that conquerors who came to Vietnam to allegedly pacify the p......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy on August 07, 2016

This book is probably the essential one for any person interested in learning the history of the Vietnam War. It's a reread for me. I also recommend the PBS series that goes along with it. The saddest part is all of the missed opportunities, many that I had forgotten about. General Giap had been emb......more

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