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PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Nathaniel Heidenheimer - 25-09-2017 Well I have posted review on about 75 places on Twitter today. If others would too we could get a million per show listening to BLACK OP and hundreds of thousands reading every article on K and K... But critical mass seems to not interest folks much.. PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Paul Rigby - 25-09-2017 B PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Paul Rigby - 25-09-2017 America's amnesia Thomas A. Bass https://mekongreview.com/americas-amnesia/ Preview: Quote:Everything wrong with the new ten-part PBS documentary on the Vietnam War is apparent in the first five minutes. A voice from nowhere intones about a war "begun in good faith" that somehow ran off the rails and killed millions of people. We see a firefight and a dead soldier in a body bag being winched into a helicopter, as the rotor goes thump, thump, thump, like a scene from Apocalypse Now. Then we cut to a funeral on Main Street and a coffin covered in Stars and Stripes, which multiply, as the camera zooms out, into dozens and then hundreds of flags, waving like a hex against warmongers who might be inclined to think that this film is insufficiently patriotic. PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Jim DiEugenio - 26-09-2017 Thanks Nathaniel, others are posting it on FB. Joe McBride sent me one of those. So you are not completely alone. PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Peter Blackman - 26-09-2017 Anthony Thorne Wrote:This does raise the question, what are the best books to read about the Vietnam war? Books I have read that I would recommend are; about the build up and strategy (both updated since the first editions); Prouty, L. Fletcher; JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy John Newman; JFK and Vietnam about some of the fighting; Robert Mason; ChickenHawk http://isbndb.com/book/chickenhawk_a04 Regards, Peter B PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Jim DiEugenio - 27-09-2017 Another good article exposing this very bad documentary https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/09/26/jfk-ordered-full-withdrawal-vietnam-solid-evidence/ PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Nathaniel Heidenheimer - 27-09-2017 Imo the best books are American Tragedy by David Kaiser JFK and Vietnam by Newman Perils of Dominance by Gareth Porter Howard Jones Death of a Generation the book by Gordon Goldstein that came out in 2007...| Choosing War and the follow up book on the late 50s period are very good but flawed compared with the above.... PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Anthony Thorne - 28-09-2017 Thanks Nathaniel. I'll check those out. I notice I have Scott's WAR CONSPIRACY, Newman's volume and Prouty's book on the shelf as well. I'll tackle them all at some point. PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Jim DiEugenio - 28-09-2017 The Goldstein book is called Lessons in Disaster. Scott's book was good for its time, but even he would tell you that its been surpassed with all the declassified documents today. Choosing War is quite good on what LBJ did from when he took office until the announcement of Rolling Thunder. Logevall is not good on Kennedy. PBS presents Burns Novick The Vietnam War - Jim DiEugenio - 11-10-2017 I just finished this overlong, bloated mediocrity. I wish I had not. But since I am writing about it, it have to. The problem is simple: Burns and Novick don't have anything to say. So they pad it all out with these personal stories that end up being maudlin when it gets to the Vietnam Memorial. But the worst thing is the lack of any kind of analysis to explain what happened. How the USA completely miscalculated Vietnam's importance, and also the so called international communist conspiracy that did not exist. And finally, that the USA really did not learn anything except as George W Bush said, "We have to kick this Vietnam syndrome". |