Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Vietnam: A History
Book Review: vietnam
Summary: 5 Stars
this book is such a waste of time, it tells you only the point of view of one's man ego and his denial of america's defeat by the north vietnamese. throughout the whole war,the u.s miltary only rely on body counts for there victory ,hoping the north vietnamese would fear the u.s army and surrender ,but in the end ,they were wrong ,the nva and viet cong were determine to fight to the death.
face it,even though the u.s military won many battles,the united states lost the war and retreated . the whole world is aware of this defeat but only some american citizen like this author denies this.
many of the vc casualty are infact innocent civilians ,that the u.s military has covered up by placing nva /vc uniforms and weapons on dead civilians ,then taking photographic pictures of it.
the united states gain nothing from the war ,with 60,000 + dead u.s soldiers ,thousands m.i.a (s) ,150,000 billion dollars down the drain ,over 100,000 seriously injured soldiers including amputees (missing legs,arms , body parts) ,and handicaps ,torn the country apart during the 60's and 70's ,fail to stop communism,fail to protect south vietnam,fail to stop an army that is 10 time smaller then u.s army,and fail to justified the war in rightious context,basically the united states gave up and retreated.
the north vietnamese suffered high casualty by fighting u.s army,australian army ,arvn army,south korean army,and new zealand all by them self ,but fighting to regain there country for a better vietnam in the future was a well justified reason to die just like anyother civil war (compared this to american civil war casualties).
so one's man ego and his obsession of denial will not change the world's view on why people should think who really won the war,everybody knows who won this war,and media wasnt wrong at all.
Book Review: vietnam a history
Summary: 5 Stars
to have been in vietnam from may68 -may 69 was for me a wide eye opener. this book by stanley karnow is clear and to the point. over and over in the 600+ pages many of my own thoughts seemed to come of the pages. 1 we had no plan. 2 the us was involved in a coup of diem after working with him for 8 year. 3 the south vietnamese never wanted to fight. 4 corruption was everywhere. as the us leaders stumbled along and as bad as it was,the worst was the potential of a nuclear bomb. i thought to myself what is a tatical nuclear bomb?. stanley karnow also brought out how our own officials went at each other state dept, cia, joint chiefs, defense dept,and kissinger seemed to want to be a department unto himself when i finished the book my primary thought was,what were we doing for all those years. how sad so many died. we should have listened to ho chi minh after ww2.