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"Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador ...

"Why did Vietnam invade and occupy Cambodia in 1978? And why did it eventually change its approach, shifting from military confrontation to economic reform and reconciliation with China in the late 1980s? Drawing on rarely accessed archival documents, Kosal Path explores this major change in Vietnamese leaders' objectives and strategies. Unlike most studies, which attribute the invasion to political ...

"How do families hold together when turbulent forces tear them apart? Silence and Sacrifice explores what happens to generations of kin who survived anti-imperial and civil wars in Vietnam, only to be confronted with postcolonial transitions to communism and market-friendly late socialism. In recounting vivid family experiences of conflict, love, and loss, Shohet revises canonical theories of sacrifice ...

In this episode Anne van Mourik and Dat Nguyen talk with Tam Ngo and Sarah Wagner on the remains of the war dead of the Vietnam-American War (1957-1975). Following the end of the war, the commemoration and identification of the fallen and missing-in-action soldiers from both the Vietnamese (North and South) and American sides remains a contentious issue. With Tam and Dat researching respectively the ...

Introduction The "American War," Post-Conflict Landscapes, and Violent Memories. - Chapter 1 National Memorial Sites and Personal Remembrance: Remembering the Dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde. - Chapter 2 National Lieu de Memoire vs. Multivocal Memories: The Case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe. - Chapter 3 War-Martyr Bia: Commemoration and Perdurability in ...

Montyn groeit op in een streng Calvinistisch gezin en begint hiertegen te rebelleren. Jan is vaak bij de Jeugdstorm te vinden, mede omdat hij in zijn puberteit gevoelens voor jongens begint te krijgen. In 1944, als negentienjarige, meldt hij zich vrijwillig bij de Duitse marine. Zijn spectaculaire levensverhaal wordt hier door Dirk Ayelt Kooiman vereeuwigd. Montyn is een biografie gebaseerd op historische ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-408) and index. 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

A single Vietnamese province in the Mekong Delta, My Tho, is the focus of this history of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement in the south. Elliott (Pomona College) has based the work largely on interviews conducted with prisoners and defectors conducted by the Rand Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense during 1965-74. He argues that land reform helped mobilize the peasantry to fight for ...

Includes index. ix, 115 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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1re éd. 222 pages ; 22 cm

"This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author's meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an "industry" of marrying European men. The Industry of Marrying Europeans is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its attention to voice: Vu Trong Phung records the French-Vietnamese ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-411) and index. x, 435 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm

Met index, lit. opg. 267 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index. xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, portraits ; 23 cm

"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology develops, derived from POW/MIA activism and the belief that substantial numbers of MIAs continue to survive ...

"In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers exaggerated the significance of the region within the global power balance, dangerously overextending the United States and resulting in the tragedy ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Frieden ist ein uralter Traum der Menscheit. Zu allen Zeiten gab es Streiter gegen den Krieg als Übel menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Die in Organisationen manifestierte Friedensbewegung findet sich in Europa bereits in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, v.a. unter dem Einfluss der bekannten Pazifisten Berta von Suttner und Alfred Hermann Fried. Besondere Anstrengungen ...

Geïnterviewde is de dochter van een Amerikaanse soldaat en een Limburgse moeder. Vader werkte op de begraafplaats in Margraten en was een getraumatiseerd man door alle oorlogservaringen. Hij heeft later in zowel Korea als Vietnam gevochten. De moeder van de geïnterviewde schreef in 2000 een brief naar de krant waarin ze vertelt hoe het is om de vrouw van een grafdelver te zijn.