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LECKIE : The wars of America (fülszöveg)

 

Now updated through the end of the Vietnam War, The Wars of America is a comprehensive narrative of all our wars—from Samuel Champlain's first fatal shots at the Iroquois in 1609 through the departure of Americans from Saigon in 1975.

Leckie has not limited himself to military history, but relates our wars to political, cultural and economic factors, and stresses those personal aspects of war that make it the most intense and contradictory of our experiences. In the Vietnam chapter, he shows how, while operating in a quintessentially American tradition, all of us—the military, the politicians, the dissenters—contributed to the debacle in Southeast Asia. Our greatest, though unconscious, error, he maintains, was the attempt of a democratic society to fight a limited war with a free press and a conscripted army. Our dilemma is that a free-speech society seeking to defend or extend the areas of free speech must limit free speech to do it.

Combining dramatic narrative with sound reference material, this book is essential for anyone who wishes to understand America at war.

 

Katalógus Leckie Tartalom
KATALÓGUS TARTALOM

 


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