As a result, some interviews extend beyond the stated scope of the book and deal with subjects as diverse as Vietnamese veterans' war souvenirs and the different schools of Cambodian Buddhism.
The period that Americans refer to as the "Vietnam War" and the Vietnamese call the "American War" was the US military intervention from 1965 to 1973.
The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong won the war because their will to fight never wavered.
In Saigon he trained and mentored young Vietnamese photographers who captured many of the war's defining images.
Many have been former South Vietnamese soldiers whose lives were blighted by war injuries, years of re-education and job discrimination.
The surprise North Vietnamese military campaign is considered the turning point of the war.
In Southeast Asia the U.S. spent roughly a decade at war, allied with the Cambodian and South Vietnamese governments.
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At the end of the second world war in 1945 Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese guerrilla leader who had fought the Japanese, believed that Vietnam would be recognised as an independent country, especially by the United States, which had supplied the guerrillas with arms and money.
We kept hankering to fight the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars, as if Vietnam were a replay of World War II.
When America lost the war there, the problem was not just South Vietnamese soldiers and officials who would now be exposed to the wrath of the victorious communists.
He thought we could wage a low-key, limited war in Vietnam la Korea: leave the North Vietnamese in power in the North, and fight to save only the South.
Loyalty to relationships in the government outweighed their doubts about the war in which 58, 000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese were to die.
Since the Vietnam War ended 25 years ago, more than two million Vietnamese have fled to the West, mainly to the U.S. The youngest of these immigrants, now in their 20s and 30s, are usually well educated, bilingual and reapers of the American dream.
During the Vietnam war, Shalikashvili served as a senior district adviser to South Vietnamese forces in 1968-69.
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Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, a poisonous defoliant used by America in the war, are still seeking compensation.
The war that left about 60, 000 American troops and up to 5m Vietnamese dead still haunts a generation of politicians, from John McCain, who famously fought, to Bill Clinton and George Bush, who famously didn't.
During the war he received a Purple Heart Medal, the Combat Action Ribbon and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
During the Vietnam war, American spies recruited members of Laos's Hmong ethnic minority to attack Vietnamese supply lines.
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After its harsh birth in Korea and its stormy Vietnamese adolescence, America's fully-integrated army finally came of age in the Gulf war, the climax of Ms Buckley's story.
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Not only did Beijing feel Vietnam was acting ungratefully after all the assistance it had received during its war against the U.S., but in 1978 Hanoi had begun expelling Vietnamese of Chinese descent.
I.s and disowned by Vietnamese, their tragedy pierces through her simplistic recipes for healing, and she succeeds in bringing the war back home.
However, as the war in Vietnam escalated, Sihanouk became more critical of America, accusing Washington-supported South Vietnamese troops of repeated incursions into Cambodian territory.
In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker met Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach in the highest-level contact between the former enemies since the Vietnam war.
So, with that, Cambodian, Loa, Hmong, Vietnamese - they're largely immigrated to the U.S. via political or refugees because of war and, in that case, their circumstances are different that would affect their educational attainment and their income levels.
But during the war, well-heeled travelers sipping coffee and fine cognac on the Metropole terrace were replaced by scared Vietnamese ducking into bomb shelters sunk into the pavement as the U.S. Air Force flew overhead.
Even more cynical is the suggestion that allowing U.S. companies anxious to do business in Vietnam to "put the war behind them" will translate into an improvement in the sorry lot in life of most of the Vietnamese people.
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