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New York : Library of America, c1998

xiii, 858 s., [32] s. příl. : il.

ISBN 1-883011-58-2 (váz.)

The Library of America ; [vol.] 104

Obsahuje černobílé fotografie, mapku, chronologii, bibliografické poznámky, glosář, rejstřík

Válka vietnamská - publicistika americká - r. 1959-1975 - reportáže

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Contents // Time Death at Intermission Time First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July m9 ¦ • i // Stanley Karnovv Diem Defeats His Own Best Troops // Challenges to Diem: January 1961... 3 // Malcolm W. Browne Paddy War // Guerrilla War in the Mekong Delta: December 1961 ... 18 // Homer Bigart A “Very Real War” in Vietnam— and the Deep U.S. Commitment Increasing American Involvement: February 1962 ... 26 // Malcolm W. Browne “The Enemy Had Left a Display for Us” // Massacre in the Ca ??? Peninsula: February 1962... 33 // Bernard B. Fall Master of the Red Jab // Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962...47 // Homer Bigart Vietnam Victory Remote Despite U.S. Aid to Diem ? // A Skeptical Assessment: July 1962... 58 // Neil Sheehan Vietnamese Ignored U.S. Battle Order Battle of ?? ???: January 1963... 68 // David Halberstam “An Endless, Relentless War” // Helicopter Assault in the Ca Man Peninsula: // April 1963... 71 // Malcolm W. Browne “He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of Flame” // Suicide in Saigon: June 1963... 79 // Marguerite Higgins The Diem Government, // Pro and Con // Politics in Saigon: August 1963... 86 // Joseph Alsop In the Gia Long Palace // Nhu and Diem: September 1963... 91 // Stanley Karnow The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh // Overthrow of Diem: November 1963...94 // CONTENTS // David Halberstam “They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them How” // Profile of John Paul Vann: ... // US News & World Report “We Are Losing, Morale

’ ’ Is Bad ... If They’d Give Us Good Planes . . .” // A Pilot’s Utters Home: November 1963-March 1964 ¦ • • // Beverly Deepe Christmas Eve Bomb in Saigon // “The pink cloud became black": December 1963... // Russell Baker Befuddled in Asia // Confusion Over Policy: March ... // John Flynn Marines Get Flowers for a Tough Mission First Combat Troops Land: March 196s... // Roger Rapoport Protest, Learning, Heckling Spark Viet Rally // First Campus “Teach-In”: March 196s... // Meg Greenfield After the Washington Teach-in Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 196s . • • • // Don Moser Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death // Struggle for hoc Dien: Summer 196s... // Bernard B. Fall Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War // American Buildup: September 196s... // William Tuohy A Big “Dirty Little War” // Terror and Counter-terror: Autumn 1965... // Tom Wolfe from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Ken Kesey Addresses an Anti-War Rally: October 196s • // Specialist 4/C Jack P. Smith Death in the la Drang Valley // “Men All Around Me Were Screaming”: November 196s • // Susan Sheehan A Viet Cong // A Defector Tells His Story: ... // McCandlish Phillips Two Hilltops in a Marine’s Life Letters Home: April  -February 1966... // Henry F. Graff Teach-In on Vietnam By . . . The President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary ot Defense and the Under Secretary of State The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966 . // 108 // 124 // 134

138 // 140 // 142 // HS // 153 // 175 // 187 // 198 // 208 // 223 // 236 // . 242 // CONTENTS // XI // Afro-American No Room in the Cemetery A Soldier’s Burial: May 1966...259 // Ward S. Just Reconnaissance // Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966...262 // Frank Harvey “Only You Can Prevent Forests” // Spraying Defoliants: July 1966...281 // Martha Gellhorn “Suffer the Little Children . . // Civilian Casualties in South Vietnam: // August-September 1966...287 // Neil Sheehan Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk // Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966 ... 298 // Frances FitzGerald “The Long Fear” // Politics in the Mekong Delta: 1966...316 // Harrison E. Salisbury U.S. Raids Better 2 Towns; // Supply Route Is Little Hurt // Ihe Bombing of North Vietnam: December 1966...325 // Bernard B. Fall “Unrepentant, Unyielding”: An Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners // U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967 ... 331 // Jonathan Randal U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After 12-Day Push // Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967...3+4 // Ward S. Just Saigon and Other Syndromes // A Reporter Looks Back: December i96$-May 1967 ... 348 // Don Moser The Vietcong Cadre of Terror // War in Saigon: June 196s-July 1967...371 // Jonathan Schell from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Qiiang Tin Southern I Corps: August 1967...386 // Richard Harwood The War Just Doesn’t Add Up // Conflicting Views: September 1967...484 // Michael J.

Arlen A Day in the Life A ’IV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967...490 // Norman Mailer from The Armies of the Night // The March on the Pentagon: October 1967...506 // Peter Arnett Hill 875 // Battle of Dak To: November 1967...522 // CONTENTS // XI1 // ??? Wolfe The Truest Sport: // Jousting with Sam and Charlie // Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967...525 // Charles Mohr U.S. Aide in Embassy Villa Kills Guerrilla with Pistol // ’lbe Tet Offensive: January 1968...557 // Don Oberdörfer from Teti // ’1?? Viet Con# in Hue: January-February 1968...560 // Lee Lescaze A Third of Mytho Destroyed in Delta Fighting // The ’Tet Offensive: February 1968...572 // John T. Wheeler Life in the V Ring // Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968...576 // Walter Cronkite “We Are Mired in Stalemate . . // Aftermath of Tet: February 1968...581 // Don Oberdörfer “An Ending of His Own” // Lyndon Johnson Changes Course: March 1968...583 // Mary McCarthy Hanoi—March 1968 // An American in North Vietnam: March-April 196S . . . 598 // Thomas A. Johnson The U.S. Negro in Vietnam // Black Servicemen and the War: 1968...615 // Norman Mailer from The Siege of Chicago // ’Ihe Democratic Convention: August 1968...628 // Steve Lerner A Visit to Chicago: // Blood, Sweat, & Tears // The Democratic Convention: August 1968...643 // Joe McGinniss from Ihe Selling of the President 1968 ’Ihe Nixon Campaign and Vietnam: September 1968 ... 653 // Kevin Buckley A Small Contribution // Firefight Near Loc Ninh:

October 1968...664 // Zalin Grant “We Lived for a Time Like Dogs” // American POWs in a Jungle Camp: // July 1968-January 1969...667 // Jeffrey Blankfort Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969...688 // CONTENTS // xiii // David Hoffman Hamburger Hill: The Army’s Rationale Battle in the A Shan Valley: May 1969...698 // Wallace Terry Black Power in Viet Nam // Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969...704 // Daniel Lang Casualties of War An Atrocity and Its Aftermath: // November 1966-October 1969...709 // Maps...771 // Chronology, 1940-I99S...775 // Biographical Notes...804 // Note on the Texts...817 // Notes...822 // Glossary...836 // Index...841 //