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Reassessing the Vietnam War |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: John M. Taylor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 991 Words, 6,701 Characters |
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TRIUMPH FORSAKEN: THE VIETNAM WAR, 1954-1965
Mark Moyar
Cambridge University Press, $32, 502 pages, illus.
Of all America's conflicts, only the Civil War has stimulated as much controversy as our ill-starred effort to preserve a non-Communist government in South Vietnam. And questions remain: Was Ho Chi Minh in fact a nationalist or was he a dedicated communist? Was the Vietnam venture hopeless from the start, or were the people of South Vietnam victims of bungling in Saigon and Washington?
The eighteen-year war is now the subject of a projected two-volume study by Cambridge University historian Mark Moyar, the first of which is Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Extensively researched from communist as well as Western sources, Triumph Forsaken challenges...
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...>Article #11787)
--"Learning From Failure," by Edward S. Shapiro, April 1988 (Article #13556)
--"Rethinking the Vietnam War," by John Attarian, July 2000 (Article #20973)
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