Author: Andrew Preston Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674021983 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy. Bundy created the position of National Security Adviser as we know it today, with momentous consequences that continue to shape American foreign policy. Both today's presidential supremacy in foreign policy and the contemporary national security bureaucracy find their origins in Bundy's powers as the first National Security Adviser and in the ways in which he and his staff brought about American intervention in Vietnam. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson were not enthusiastic about waging a difficult war in pursuit of murky aims, but the NSC's bureaucratic dexterity and persuasive influence in the Oval Office skewed the debate in favor of the conflict. In challenging the prevailing view of Bundy as a loyal but quietly doubting warrior, Preston also revises our understanding of what it meant--and means--to be a hawk or a dove. The War Council is an illuminating and compelling story with two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised.
Author: Andrew Preston Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674046323 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
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Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, this title demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy.
Author: Meighen McCrae Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108475302 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 293
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This exploration of Allied war plans for 1918-1919 uncovers how the Supreme War Council became a successful mechanism for coalition war.
Author: Heribert von Feilitzsch Publisher: ISBN: 9780985031794 Category : Espionage, German Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Secret War Council illuminates the activities of German agents in the United States in 1914, a critical battlefield of the Great War. This crucial time of German-American relations builds the foundation for a thorough understanding of the road that led the two nations into open confrontation in 1917. A little known group of agents, diplomats, and businessmen organized in the Secret War Council helped pave that road.
Author: Molly Guptill Manning Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544535170 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
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This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a “cultural history that does much to explain modern America” (USA Today). When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war. These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only listed soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. “A thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account . . . I was enthralled and moved.” — Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
Author: Peter E. Wright Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash Company, limited [1921] ISBN: Category : France Languages : en Pages : 222
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Engelsk bog om krigsministeriets arbejde under den 1. Verdenskrig 1914-1918. Emnerne er dannelse af krigskancelliet "The War Council", dets krigsplanlægning, felttoget 1918 og militært samarbejde i verdenskrigen. Desuden er der et helt afsnit om Slaget ved St. Quentin i 1918.
Author: P. Chassaigne Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403907129 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 211
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From the Fashoda incident in 1898 to the current Blair-Jospin 'entente', this book reviews one century of Franco-British relations. Friend or foe? Partner or rival? Model or counter-model? The two countries continually wavered between two extremes. Yet, as this collection of papers show, they have always had more things in common than suspected in the first place, and there has always been a strong case for cooperation.
Author: Captain Peter E. Wright Publisher: ISBN: 9781330615041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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Excerpt from At the Supreme War Council Though it has hardly been detected by the many and hostile critics of this book, my main object in writing it was to establish the truth on a number of points: for a number of plain truths about the war had been obscured for the public, or rather never revealed to it, at all. Many of my views, here expressed, are, and perhaps always will be, debatable: for men always have, and always will, argue for ever about battles, and no estimate of a human character can be fixed or final. But there is one fact which is unshaken and unshakable, and which was no less a shock to the public than it had been to myself when it came to my knowledge. In this war we, the Allies, were big and our enemies small during almost the whole contest. Yet they held out for four years, and nearly won. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Andrew Preston
Author: Andrew Preston
Author: Meighen McCrae
Author: Andrew Preston
Author: Heribert von Feilitzsch
Author: Molly Guptill Manning
Author: Peter E. Wright
Author: P. Chassaigne
Author: Captain Peter E. Wright
Author: Peter E. Wright