Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

By Stanley Karnow

;Vietnam: A heritage КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Издательство: Penguin BooksАвтор: Stanley KarnovЯзык: EnglishГод издания: 1984Количество страниц: 765ISBN: 0140073248Формат: pdfРазмер: 52,4 mbProvides a entire examine either side of the Vietnam conflict via a suite of private stories and delves into the political and army occasions within the usa and in other places that initially prompted the struggle and the introduced it to an finish. RAPIDили IFOLDER zero

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Piety and Power I /II/ltis Cart/ier, a heroic French officer, led an attack against the Citadel irl Hanoi. 1 killed, as seen here, by lIIercetwries fighth/JZ Jor the Vietrlamese in December Ilf/i. "t'III'h irnperialist drille to I'M/qUe/' Vietnam. ;,,;,:;;. :::. -. ~ ~'- --~-~~~~ An eighteenth-centttry European view of Torzkin, the northern area of Vietnam. The British and Dutch had designated areas in which foreign traders were permitted to maintain commercial posts. Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, bishop of Adran, the Catholic missionary who first evoked France's interest in Vietnam in the late eighteenth century.

1 killed, as seen here, by lIIercetwries fighth/JZ Jor the Vietrlamese in December Ilf/i. "t'III'h irnperialist drille to I'M/qUe/' Vietnam. ;,,;,:;;. :::. -. ~ ~'- --~-~~~~ An eighteenth-centttry European view of Torzkin, the northern area of Vietnam. The British and Dutch had designated areas in which foreign traders were permitted to maintain commercial posts. Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, bishop of Adran, the Catholic missionary who first evoked France's interest in Vietnam in the late eighteenth century.

_ -c:-~J lit . ~ ~ I A French Ilersion oj the execution by the Vietnamese oj Father Borie, a Catholic missionary, Relatillely jew European priests were executed in Vietnam, but their martyrdom was publicized in France to stir up religious jerllor. Phan Thanh Giang, a prominent Vietnamese mandarin oj the nineteenth century, tralleled to Paris to negotiate a treaty with Napoleon III. When the French Iliolated the pact, Phan committed suicide after pledging his sons neller to cooperate with Fra II ce , An engraving of the Mekong made by a French exploratory expedition.

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