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In War and Peace in Vietnam, Richard West shows us the Vietnam of the newsreels - the Vietnam of blo...
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In War and Peace in Vietnam, Richard West shows us the Vietnam of the newsreels - the Vietnam of bloody fighting and bodybags, of protests and patriotism - but also the Vietnam of that little-known period between the departure of the Americans and the northern military conquest in 1975. He shows us how the South Vietnamese on their own became a courageous, patriotic and very anti-Communist nation, a nation defeated only by overwhelming military might. It is his view that the United States were right to intervene in Southeast Asia, and would have succeeded but for a tragic failure of will in the American public at home.
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