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History for busy people. Listen to a concise history of the Vietnam War in just one hour.
War, what is it good for? The Vietnam War: History In an Hour gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People's Army and their Communist allies. It was one of the most traumatic military conflicts America has ever been involved in - and provoked a backlash of anti-war protests at home.
Here are the key events leading up to the Vietnam War, the deadly guerrilla warfare of the Viet Cong, the domestic anti-war movement, and the fall of Saigon. The Vietnam War: History In an Hour is essential listening for anyone interested in post-war history.
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- Sales Rank: #38423 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-08-02
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 69 minutes
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
a good summary - the descriptions of those involved was good
By Gordon E. Hadlow
As advertised, a good summary - the descriptions of those involved was good...
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Cleverly Biased
By Alan Dale Daniel
Probably the best book on the Vietnam War is: American Strategy in Vietnam, A Critical Analysis, by Col. H. G. Summers, Jr. A Dover publication available here on Amazon. The book is 121 pages. Very short and easy to read, and much better than this one. And yes, being a Vietnam era vet I am biased.
This short book has a slanted viewpoint, but it is well hidden. What is not said is often more important than what is said, especially when speaking of the Vietnam war. I am always careful of books on the War in Vietnam that list only American casualties and the number of US personnel involved. The author mentions Communist casualties in the time line at the end of book in a few places (Operation Junction City for example), but almost nowhere else. Even when talking about the siege at Dien Bien Phu the author mentions only French casualties. For some reason most writers on the Vietnam War, normally newspaper reporters working for liberal publications, only talk about the US dead and wounded. They almost never mention South Vietnamese casualties, which were in the millions, or the North Vietnamese casualties, which were also in the millions. The US kill ratio in the war ran at something like 20 to 1. We will never know for certain because the Communist will never admit their losses - if they even knew or cared.
I am also careful with books that contain quotes like this: " The Communist also committed atrocities, of course, they appear to have killed several thousand civilians in the city of Hue during the period they held parts of that city." "Of course" the Communist committed atrocities? "Appear" to have killed several thousand in Hue? How about this, in 1961 the Communist killed over 4,000 village officials in South Vietnam. The number of South Vietnamese civilians executed by the Communist in Hue during the Tet Offensive probably exceed 5,000. 347 South Vietnamese were killed at My Lai, which was by far the worst US atrocity of the war. Why is it that the US is held to an absolute standard of perfection while those fighting the US and its allies can do nearly anything and be let off with a tart "of course." How about "Of course, the Communist were evil."
The book says almost nothing about what was going on politically or militarily in North Vietnam during the war. There is no mention of the torture or deprivation undergone by our captured pilots in N. Vietnam. There is no discussion of the repressive government that sent their young men south to die by the hundreds of thousands for their leader's dreams.
The Vietnam War: History in An Hour, argues that Nixon's bombing efforts did not bring N. Vietnam to the bargaining table. Yes, they did. The N. Vietnamese walked out of the peace talks in December, Nixon bombed them repeatedly, then they came back and signed the peace treaty in January. - That is a fast change of heart. The book also contends that the anti-war movement had little to do with policy making on the war. Wrong again. McCarthy won the Democratic nomination by promising to get out of the war. Robert Kennedy was carrying the same message to victory in California when he was assassinated. The Democratic Party had been taken over by the anti-war movement, and it showed in a heavily Democratic Congress with the passage of restriction after restriction on the handling of the war. The chief reason President G. Ford could not respond to the last invasion was the Democratic Congress had cut off all funding. All of this was a direct result of the anti-war movement. The author's arguments to the contrary are just vapid.
Robert McNamara has a short bio at the end of the book, but he is seldom mentioned in the body of the book. However, McNamara was a critical part of the nonsensical decision making of the Johnson White House. McNamara hamstrung the Chiefs of Staff, lied to Johnson about the war and what the Chiefs of Staff were recommending, and he established the policies on the combat restrictions which really hurt the US Military's ability to fight the war. The Allies won WWII because they consistently made good decisions. Not all of them were good, but they were much better than the decisions being made by their opposition. The Vietnam War really isn't different in that respect. The side that makes the best decisions makes the most headway. President Johnson and Defense Sec McNamara made some of the worst decisions in the history of warfare, and US troops paid in blood for those errors.
Strange how politics works in the modern world. Johnson and the Congress literally steal billions from the Social Security Trust Fund for the Great Society, Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara literally order thousands of men to fight in the Vietnam War, from which many do not return. What happens to these people? Johnson, McNamara and the members of Congress just go on their way. They leave public office wealthy beyond all belief, and they live out their lives in comfort while still basking in the glow of their public service. They made their death dealing decisions, they stole the SS Trust Funds which now threatens to bankrupt the nation, and nothing happens to them. No trial, no punishment. The one and only "punishment" they will ever face is the verdict of history. And this book fails to call Kennedy or McNamara to task for even that. (Johnson is called to task)
Eisenhower did not send in troops, but this book acts as if he committed the US irrevocably to Vietnam. Eisenhower used the Vital National Interest theory to determine when to risk men. Kennedy did not use that formula. He had said that not one inch of "free soil" should ever be given up to Communism; thus, he committed the troops to Vietnam and Johnson, for reasons hard to discern, upped the anti tremendously. Nixon, who was stuck with the whole mess, managed to get out by again using the vital national interest analysis. That was why he went to China. He saw that the vital national interests of both nations were in sync, and the war in Vietnam was outside of US vital national interests.
South Vietnam could have held out much longer with minimal US help. The massive offensive by the Communist in 1972 was a total failure, and the only real US help was air power. The North could not mount another offensive for over a year, and that one failed as well (the Easter offensive of 1973). During the April 1975 offensive which conquered S. Vietnam, if the US (President Ford) would have used air power to help the South, that invasion and the fall of the South would have been avoided. The 1975 invasion was a Korea style attack, with massive divisions of N. Vietnamese supplied with tanks, artillery and all the hardware of modern war. Perfect targets for aircraft. It was much like the invasion of Kuwait that President Bush responded to. But the world let Vietnam fall to the fanatics of the North. No one, not the US, the UN, or anyone else intervened. Thousands were killed in the South by the new regime. Nothing about this is mentioned in the book.
The key to the book is what is not mentioned, or mentioned very little. Kennedy is not called out for changing the formula for analyzing international affairs. Nixon is not given credit for re-establishing that formula. The repressive regime of the North is not talked about, McNamara's mismanagement of the war isn't discussed (except briefly in his bio at the end), and so on and so on.
Remember to read: American Strategy in Vietnam, A Critical Analysis, by Col. H. G. Summers, Jr. A Dover publication available here on Amazon. The book is 121 pages.
AD2
(Lt USMC, 1970 - 1975 - helicopter pilot, separated as a Captain. I have also written the Super Summary of World History which includes a chapter on the Vietnam War.)
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History in an Hour
By Onlygameintown
This is a very poor book on the highlights of the Viet Nam war. The author restates events and other information several times in different chapters. Poor research, I feel.
The English sounding narrator has a good voice; however, his mispronunciations of Vietnamese names of important people and locations in Viet Nam does disservice to the reader..
I was there for that war. I felt cheated out of possibly new information I might have missed.
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