Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
by Marilyn Young
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Author: Marilyn YoungEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-09-25
ISBN: 0060921072
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: Propaganda Posing as History
Summary: 1 Stars
Other reviewers have made it clear that this book is not really an attempt at history but is so biased that it is far more a polemic than a history book . I would however expect that someone with Ms. Young's credentials get some basic facts straight . For example on page 3 Ms. Young states that the meeting that resulted in the unification of the Indochinese Communist Party was held in Hong Kong on 18 February 1930 . In fact , the meeting was held 3-7 February . This is not a difficult fact to get correctly as Vietnam commemorates 3 February 1930 as the birthday of the Vietnamese Communist Party . It is true that the Vietnamese themselves had this date muddled for quite awhile as they had trouble reconciling their lunar calendar with the Gregorian calendar. They had it as 6 January, but nowhere can I find 18 February having relevance to the founding of the ICP. Ms. Young also fails to tell us that Ho Chi Minh convoked this meeting in his role as Comintern Head for Indochina on behalf of Moscow. The author does give us all fair warning as to her mind set when in the preface she says" that the United States invaded Vietnam against our stated values and ideals and that it did so secretly and deceptively, fighting a war of immense violence in order to impose its will on another sovereign nation." In my opinion the fact that this book is used as a history text book in some schools is shameful.
Summary of Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war.Asia Books
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