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Vietnam: A History
by Karnow, Stanley
- Used
- Condition
- very good, fair to good
- ISBN 10
- 0670746045
- ISBN 13
- 9780670746040
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Book Club Edition. very good, fair to good. 750, illus., maps, chronology, notes on sources, index, front DJ flap price clipped, small tears/chips to DJ edges. Larger tear to rear DJ. This book was published in conjunction with the 1983 PBS program: Vietnam, a television history. The author's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region.
Synopsis
"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."— Boston Globe . "Superb, balanced in interpretation... immensely readable and full of new and interesting detail."—George Herring, Univ. of Kentucky.
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Details
- Seller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 48279
- Title
- Vietnam: A History
- Author
- Karnow, Stanley
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, fair to good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0670746045
- ISBN 13
- 9780670746040
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Vietnam, French Indochina, Southeast Asia, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Diem, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Henry Kissinger
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Edges
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- Price Clipped
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...