Road to Disaster: A New History of America’s Descent Into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMarkRequirements: .ePUB reader, 9.3 MBOverview: The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the […]
Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMarkRequirements: PDF Reader, 16.98MBOverview: In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by “chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion […]
Pandora’s Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb By Brian VandemarkRequirements: ePUB , MOBI Reader, 3.6 MBOverview: Nine men – Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton – brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism […]