The twenty-five year century : a South Vietnamese general remembers the Indochina War to the fall of Saigon /
"For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For General Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of...
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press,
©2001.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | CONNECT |
Summary: | "For Victor Hugo, the nineteenth century could be remembered by only its first two years, which established peace in Europe and France's supremacy on the continent. For General Lam Quang Thi, the twentieth century had only twenty-five years: from 1950 to 1975, during which the Republic of Vietnam and its Army grew up and collapsed with the fall of Saigon. This is the story of those twenty-five years."--Jacket. |
---|---|
Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (423 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 141750241X 9781417502417 9781574411430 1574411438 1574414348 9781574414349 1433710455 9781433710452 |