If we want to understand why so many young men volunteered to serve in the great war, it is illuminating to look at the childrens books that glorified soldiering and demonized other nations from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries across europe. In the rush to get to americas war in vietnam, scholars have given remarkably short shrift to the first one. Logevall s book amounts to one of the most effective indictments of the americanization of the vietnam war that has yet been written. The fall of an empire and the making of americas vietnam, and americas cold war. Embers of war the fall of an empire and the making of americas vietnam by fredrik logevall random house. Fredrik logevall s excellent book choosing war 1999 chronicled the american escalation of the vietnam war in the early 1960s. Named one of the best books of the year by the washington post. Fredrik logevall s choosing war was influential in challenging a longheld conception, one which spoke of the inevitability of american intervention in vietnam. With embers of war, he has written an even more impressive book about the french conflict in vietnam and the beginning of the american one.
Logevall presents a very cogent and deeply reasoned assessment of americas entry into the futile and eventually tragic landscape of an americanized war in vietnam. The longest night of jon snows life could have been even longer. Fredrik logevalls excellent bookchoosing war 1999 chronicled the american escalation of the vietnam war in the early 1960s. Kennedy school of government and professor of history in the harvard faculty of arts and sciences. With embers of war, he has written an even more impressive book about the french conflict in vietnam and the beginning of the american one it is the most comprehensive history of that time.
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Masur brings together the personal letters, diary entries, and journal articles of some of the most distinguished writers of the time to constitute a striking literary landscape. Fredrik logevall is an awardwinning, renowned historian, accomplished educator, and prolific writer on the vietnam war and its legacy. The lost chance for peace and the escalation of war in vietnam by fredrik logevall overview in one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on american intervention in vietnam, fredrik logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war. Part of a new generation of diplomatic historians who practice multiarchival research, logevall draws on the documentary records of canada, france, england, and swedenin addition to the united states. Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of countless minor scenes and interiors, not the official surface courteousness of the generals, not the few great battles of the secession war. The lost chance for peace and the escalation of war in vietnam, fredrik logevall tackles the issues from a fresh perspective. In a startlingly graphic exploration of the horrors of war, vitale when the wind stops first paints folklike landscapes in his signature style, showing graceful, brownskinned mothers cuddling. The fall of an empire and the making of americas war in vietnam is an outstanding piece of scholarship on the subject of frances war in indochina and how it became americas war in vietnam. Logevall argues that there was nothing inevitable to american escalation in vietnam, and that the decision to. The book is a prequel to choosing war, logevall s ph. Fredrik logevall books list of books by author fredrik. As it stands, choosing war is the best antidote to a variety of noxious interpretations of the war, not least the notion that it was necessary. The year 2000 marks the twentyfifth anniversary of the publication of the great war and modern memory, winner of the national book award, the national book critics circle award, and recently named by the modern library one of the twentieth centurys 100 best nonfiction books.
The lost chance for peace and the escalation of war in vietnam by fredrik logevall, university of california press, london england, 1999. The real war will never get in the books by walt whitman. Knight professor of international studies and professor of history at cornell university, where he serves as director of the mario einaudi center for international studies. Feb 09, 2001 stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, choosing war is far and away the best study we have of lyndon johnsons escalation of the conflict in vietnam.
See all books authored by fredrik logevall, including embers of war. The lost chance for peace and the escalation of war in vietnam, 2001. In this pathbreaking account of the making of americas vietnam, fredrik logevall places the indochina war, the crumbling of the french empire, and american intervention in vietnam at the center of his analysis. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the great war and modern memory. Readers interested in the history of southeast asia, or the vietnam war. The great war and modern memory by paul fussell books on. Fredrik logevall in the new york times on bernard fall. The author provides new information, draws on fresh documentation, and challenges commonly held assumptions. How did game of thrones pull off the war at the wall in the.
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