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100 1 _aWoodruff, Mark W.
245 1 0 _aUnheralded victory :
_bwho won the Vietnam War? /
_cby Mark W. Woodruff.
260 _aLondon :
_bHarperCollins,
_c2000.
300 _axiv, 338 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 322-329) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: The Early History: 207 B.C.-1961. 1. Two Different Countries, Many Different Wars -- I. The Defeat of the Viet Cong 1961-1971. 2. The Advisor Period. 3. Fighting the Viet Cong Main Force. 4. Tet 1968. 5. The End of the Viet Cong -- II. The Defeat of the North Vietnamese Army 1965-1973. 6. A Different Struggle, Battling the North Vietnamese Army. 7. Ia Drang. 8. Battles Along the Borders. 9. The Generals Argue. 10. Operation Scotland: The Battle for Khe Sanh. 11. Hue. 12. The Offensive Is Stopped. 13. Foxtrot Ridge. 14. Operation Dewey Canyon. 15. Securing the Western Borders. 16. The Incursions. 17. Vietnamization Is Tested. 18. Linebacker II. 19. Defeat of the North Vietnamese Army. 20. The End of the War. 21. Epilogue -- III. The Dich Van Program Orchestrated Myths, Falsehoods, and Lies. 22. The Dich Van Program. 23. The Bombings. 24. Civilian Deaths and Atrocities. 25. No 'David-Versus-Goliath' Struggle. 26. The Home Front. 27. The Myth of Poor Morale -- IV. Questioning the Credibility of the Witnesses Gaining a Fairer Verdict by History. 28. The "Narrow Sample" Problem. 29. Not Expert Witnesses. 30. Storytellers, Not Witnesses. 31. The Hostile Witness. 32. Not Eyewitnesses at All. 33. False Witnesses. 34. Summing Up
520 1 _a"Unheralded Victory is a revisionist history of the Vietnam war based on personal experience and exhaustive study of what actually happened, as opposed to what was reported. Contrary to what might be expected, it charts the defeat of the Viet Cong. It investigates why the popular image of the war then, as now, is that propagated by Hanoi's propaganda machine, and why US propaganda was so clumsy. Many myths are debunked: drug use among US forces, 'fragging', American morale: the author's account squares with the recollections of actual veterans. He also exposes a number of 'eyewitnesses', some active in the veterans' organizations who were never in Vietnam and whose false testimony has contributed to enduring myth of the 'crazed Vietnam veteran' as portrayed in cinema and TV. An original military history, Unheralded Victory echoes some themes revisited in NATO's war on Serbia: how what gets reported can be more important than the events on the ground - especially if the frontline is a very dangerous place for film crew."--Jacket.
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648 7 _a1961-1975
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650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975.
650 7 _aMilitary campaigns.
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650 7 _aPropaganda.
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758 _ihas work:
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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