Vietnam
Jul 3 2007 14:30
Does anyone know of any good histories of the US invasion of Vietnam?
Jul 3 2007 15:50
#2
Thanks. I've had a look. I've already got Zinn's book, but thanks.
I'm more looking for in depth books on the subject, but from authors who do not have a pro-american bias or an implicit anticommunism. I've just been reading the account fo the war in Chomsky & Herman's "Manufacturing Consent", and have been quite horrified by what I've read, and want to find more info and corroboration of this account.
Jul 3 2007 16:40
#3
Do a google for 'winter soldier' it was a conference and publication where American soldiers exposed the "war crimes" happening in Vietnam. The testimony is archived on the net somewhere.
Jul 4 2007 02:29
#4
I think Gabriel Kolko - a lefty historian from the US - wrote a book about it.
Far from a general history but "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason, the memoirs of a US army helicopter pilot who was there early in the war, is awesome.
Jul 4 2007 03:00
#5
"people's history of the vietnam war" is good, from a trotskyist so it's not rah-rah for the NLF.
Jul 6 2007 12:50
#6
Terry wrote:
Do a google for 'winter soldier' it was a conference and publication where American soldiers exposed the "war crimes" happening in Vietnam. The testimony is archived on the net somewhere.
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html
Also helpful in understanding the Vietnam war and it's impact on American culture is H. Bruce Franklin's MIA: Mythmaking In America
Jul 6 2007 12:59
#7
I'm pretty sure Chomsky has a fairly extensive list in manufacturing consent of where he got the information from. You could follow those up?
Well there's Zinn in brief:
http://libcom.org/history/1957-1975-the-vietnam-war
and a bit longer, from his famous book:
http://libcom.org/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn/18-the-impossible-victory-vietnam
We have lots of other articles about different aspects of it too:
http://libcom.org/tags/vietnam-war