HARRISON : The endless war (fülszöveg)
Still puzzled by Vietnam, Americans continue to ask themselves, "What went wrong?" How is it possible that a half-million American soldiers, with a million South Vietnamese allies and over three times the tonnage of bombs used in all of World War II, were unable to prevent the Communist victory of 1975?
The French must have asked themselves a similar question in 1954, when "superior" French forces lay in ruins at the valley of Dien Bien Phu. How could General Giap's guerrillas have captured over 10,000 French soldiers, ending nearly a century of colonial rule?
The Endless War helps us to understand the triumph of the Vietnamese revolution by letting us see it from the Vietnamese perspective. This is not another book about "American involvement in Vietnam"; it is the story, seen through Vietnamese eyes, of how a native resistance movement was organized and conducted for half a century against successive waves of foreign powers, and against the most destructive bombing campaign ever undertaken in the history of warfare.
The story begins in 1925, when a man named Ho Chi Minh – a former ship's helper, a cook in London, and a photo retoucher in Paris – established a revolutionary youth league, and a few years later helped to found the Communist Party of Vietnam.
James Pinckney Harrison traces the Communists' ideology and methods of organization; their leadership of peasants, intellectuals, and "united front" groups; and the guerrilla tactics and political strategies with which they countered foreign armies and anti-communist South Vietnamese regimes.
It is a remarkable history, a story of determination, survival, and final victory against impossible odds. It is here seen freshly from the Vietnamese point of view, a seemingly endless war that has forever marked the course of Asian, American, and world history – a struggle that will be argued about and discussed for generations, but which may never be understood without this book.
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