vietnam war history

The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick The first episode aired last night, I was only able to catch about half. (I am not sure if the non-Americans in the forum know who Ken Burns is, or the nature of his documentaries. He makes long-form historical documentaries, most famously...

Book title is "The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam" I didnt know there was a book written about the CIA Phoenix Program. If anyone hasn't seen it, this is from intro:

Today my wife and kids were going to visit an aquarium in Hannover, Lower Saxony, but the A-Bahn was closed because some old WWII bombs were found near the road. That made me think - Germany was heavily bombed of course, but Vietnam was hit even harder. Does Vietnam have the same sorts of...

General Vo Nguyen Giap the military leader behind the Vietnamese defeat of France and the United States has died at 102. BBC link.

An article on the BBC website written by Malcolm Gladwell http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23037957 Maybe I should read whatever thing the author is publicising with the article but the article itself is very frustrating. All it says is that Konrad Kellen differed in his analysis from the...

Many of us alive in the early 70s recall the frightening image of a young Vietnamese girl running naked towards the camera screaming in terror and pain after having survived a naplam attack. Here is what happened next...

I stumbled across the text below while searching for interesting material to provide ideas for role-playing scenarios. It has also piqued my curiosity and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to help by providing additional sources, especially into the part of the account highlighted. It...

America's heroic defense of South Vietnam stopped the spread of communism to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand . To see where I got this information from, see this page:http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html What you will find on this page will totally change the way you...