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Title: VIETNAM: Government approval regarding the proposed construction of a new 250,000 ton per year steel mill is tentatively expected by the end of the year 2002 and be followed by an invitation to bid on equipment supply, VIETNAM STEEL CORP. (VSC) [Vietnam] - Order #: 091202.
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Title: VIETNAM: Government approval regarding the proposed construction of a new 250,000 ton per year steel mill is tentatively expected by the end of the year 2002 and be followed by an invitation to bid on equipment supply, VIETNAM STEEL CORP. (VSC) [Vietnam] - Order #: 091202.
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With more than one hundred four-color maps supplemented by photographs and reconstructions, the Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War provides the first major visualization of that war as well as a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the conflict based on both U.S. and Vietnamese postwar accounts. The atlas begins with an overview of the foundations of the Vietnamese nation-state, including its almost two-thousand-year struggle to break free from Chinese domination and its century-long fight to gain its independence from French colonial rule, and sets the 1954 partition of the country and the subsequent American involvement there in their cold war context. U.S. involvement is examined in depth to provide an understanding of why America intervened and why, despite its battlefield successes, it ultimately failed to obtain its political objective: a free and independent South Vietnam. Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., examines the many anomalies of the war, including why the United States bought the Communist propaganda line that relations between China and Vietnam were as "the lips to the teeth," when Vietnam actually felt betrayed by its Chinese "ally." Unlike most U.S. writings on the war, which end with the 1968 Tet Offensive - a failing analogous to ending the study of World War II with Stalingrad or Guadalcanal - Summers' essay draws on North Vietnamese sources to explode the notion that the war was an indigenous South Vietnamese uprising. He details the destruction of the Viet Cong guerrillas in the Tet Offensive and tells how the war was primarily a conventional one waged by the regular armed forces of North Vietnam during the last seven years. The atlas examines the curious effect of the U.S. antiwar movement, the "Vietnamization" of the war, the Americans' cynical abandonment of their Asian ally, and the final North Vietnamese multi-division blitzkrieg that led to the fall of Saigon in 1975, as well as Robert McNamara's self-serving apologia that the war was militarily unwinnable from the onset. Given the strong emotion involved, many of the Vietname generation may continue to be wedded to their prejudices. But it has been said that those who came of age after the war know there is a skeleton in the family closet and now want to be let in on the secret. An examination of the forensic evidence, the Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War is the closest we have yet come to a thorough autopsy of that debacle. ... Read more

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Wandering Cities, Misplaced Units
I would consider The West Point Atlas of American Wars to be the gold standard of Military Atlases, by comparison this is tin. The maps are beautiful, well produced, and inaccurate all to often. The location of major Cities; Military units, and bases constantly change, are in the wrong place, or are left out completely. I don't believe that Qui Nhon the largest city in Central Viet Nam was ever located in the proper place, (how hard is it to put sea ports on the sea? ) and was often not shown. This would be like leaving Richmond out of an atlas of Civil War battles in the East. Other examples Tuy Hoa and Song Cau are also important coastal cities. They come and go move to other cities locations or are replaced by other cities or even towns. This is like having maps were Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia randomly appeared, disappeared, and changed places, or move, in a random manner. Interestingly the only map which seems to show all the coastal cities of Viet Nam where they really are is the 1945 French map on p45. This also applies to military bases. Phu Cat was one of the largest Air Force bases in Viet Nam, it originally was located 40 miles northwest of Qui Nhon before it started to move. It is first seen on p71 20 miles south of where it started; by p97 it has replaced Tuy Hoa 100 miles southwest and now on the coast; p171 has it back where it was first located, but never fear, the first tactical fighter wing that was stationed at Phu Cat is shown on p93 located in the mountains under triple canopy northwest of Tuy Hoa before Tuy Hoa vanishes, replaced by Van Canh, then Phu Cat, Tuy Hoa vanishes again, but then reappears in the proper place, interesting. Every City in South Viet Nam Except Saigon, and Da Nang move and vanish on these maps, I'm just getting tired of giving examples. The real question is, what good is a supposed atlas if the maps are this carelessly done?

Wandering Cities, Misplaced Units
I would consider The West Point Atlas of American Wars to be the gold standard of Military Atlases, by comparison this is tin. The maps are beautiful, well produced, and inaccurate all to often. The location of major Cities; Military units, and bases constantly change, are in the wrong place, or are left out completely. I don't believe that Qui Nhon the largest city in Central Viet Nam was ever located in the proper place, (how hard is it to put sea ports on the sea? ) and was often not shown. This would be like leaving Richmond out of an atlas of Civil War battles in the East. Other examples Tuy Hoa and Song Cau are also important coastal cities. They come and go move to other cities locations or are replaced by other cities or even towns. This is like having maps were Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia randomly appeared, disappeared, changed places, or moved, in a random manner. Interestingly the only map which seems to show all the coastal cities of Viet Nam where
they really are is the 1945 French map on p45
This also applies to military bases. Phu Cat was one of the largest Air Force bases in Viet Nam, it originally was located 40 miles northwest of
Qui Nhon before they started to move. It is first seen on p71 20 miles south of where it started by p97 it has replaced Tuy Hoa 100 miles southwest and now on the coast, p171 has it back where it was first located, but never fear, the first tactical fighter wing that was stationed at Phu Cat is shown on p93 to located in the mountains under triple canopy northwest of Tuy Hoa before it vanished.
Every City in South Viet Nam Except Saigon, and Da Nang move and vanish on these maps, I'm just getting tired of giving examples.
The real question is, what good is a supposed atlas if the maps are this carelessly done?

The War in Graphic Detail

All in all, this book is a pretty good narrative of the entire Vietnam War.The text is simple and concise, thus making it a relatively easy read.It is about 213 pages long but the reader will only read half these pages as the other half contain full page maps.The book is broken into seven major sections.Each section starts with a short narrative.Thus, the reader has a quick understanding of the upcoming battles.

The only shortcoming of the text is that the descriptions of the various battles are sometimes too brief.The Battle of the Ia Drang is essentially described as the Americans landing on an NVA Regiment, a battle ensued, the Americans called in air strikes and won the day.The reader is forced to look at other sources for any meaningful description of the battle.

Nevertheless, this book has some very good qualities.The often vague battlefield descriptions are overcome by excellent graphic maps.These full color maps provide a clear detail of the various units in a battle as well as their line of attack or retreat.The book also contains a good selection of photographs relating to each specific battle.Finally, this book is more than a collection of maps, pictures, and brief battlefield narratives.It also describes events and organizations such as MACV, the Green Berets, and the assassination of President Diem.

Bottom line: this book is a quick easy read about the entire Vietnam War.Although the battle narratives are weak, they are compensated by excellent graphic maps.This is a good addition to any home library about the Vietnam War.

A visual diary of the War.
This is a beautifully illustrated book with battlefield plans of the Vietnam Wars and details of all the troop movements. It places the reader right at the center of the war zone. The text on the left handside details the events involved at the time while maps are drawn on the right handside.

The texts are concised, focused and give the reader a clear and broad picture of the war.

Problems with the Maps
Too many things are shown in the wrong places on the maps.

The most hilarious example is on page 97.Laos had two capital cities: the royal capital of Luang Prabang, where the (purely ceremonial) king lived, and theadministrative capital of Vientiane, where there was an actual government. On this map, Luang Prabang has been moved across the border into NorthVietnam (a very strange place for the royal capital of Laos), whileVientiane has been moved across the other border into Thailand.The samemap also has the town of Vinh, in North Vietnam, shifted westward from itsactual location near the coast; it appears on this map to be closer to theLaotian border than to the sea.

Flip one page back to look at the map onpage 95, which shows the Tonkin Gulf Incidents and the U.S. air strikes ofAugust 5, 1964.This map has Vinh in the right place, but Hanoi has beenmislocated; it is shown as being southwest of Haipong (Hanoi is actuallynorthwest of Haiphong).More important, the map shows Hon Gai, one of thetargets of the U.S. air strikes, as being right next to the Chinese border. Hon Gai is actually well to the southwest of the location shown; if it hadbeen close to the Chinese border, Lyndon Johnson would not have approvedthe strike against it in this operation.The location shown for theaircraft carrier Constellation, which launched the planes for the strikeagainst Hon Gai, is also seriously inaccurate.

A small inset map on page95 shows the tracks of the two U.S. destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy, onthe night of August 4, 1964, and the tracks of objects that appeared ontheir radar, believed to be torpedo boats attacking them.The track shownfor the supposed torpedo boat designated V2 bears no resemblance to anytrack that shows in the records of the destroyers, and the track shown forV1 does not bear a close resemblance to any track that shows in the recordsof the destroyers.

I have not found so many errors in other maps in thisatlas, but I have found more than I liked.The one thing an atlas isabsolutely supposed to do is show things in the correct locations on themaps. ... Read more

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An important contribution.
These are the stories of two former colonels of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam who were sent to North Vietnamese reeducation camps for thirteen years each after the collapse of Saigon. They had to battle winter chills, starvation, hunger, lack of medications, and exhauting work in the rice paddies.
The only treatment for any illness is tam lien, a local herbal medicine, which instead of helping, worsens their medical illnesses. Malnutrition and manual labor undermine the health of the remaining people. Others were plucked in the middle of the night for intensive and mind numbming interrogations, from which they returned "dazzled, silent, and uncommunicative."
This important contribution to the Vietnam War history underlines the mistreatment and violation of human rights of prisoners by the Hanoi government.I only wish it was more detailed, but the authors have advised us they are warriors not "writers".
I also learn that general Le Minh Dao, commander of the 18th ARVN division, who magnificently repulsed repetitive attacks from five North Vietnamese divisions at Xuan Loc during the last days of April 1975, was also sent to the North for 17 years of reeducation. He is working on his memoirs and everyone is anxiously waiting to read them. ... Read more

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Here is the first scholarly book-length analysis of Communist Vietnam's political system. Taking advantage of the unprecedented wealth of revealing documentary material published in Vietnam since 1985, Gareth Porter offers new insights into the functioning of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its management of the Vietnamese economy and society. He examines the evolution of the system from the time the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was founded in 1945 through the 1986-1990 period of economic liberalization and cautious political reform by the successor regime, the SRV. ... Read more

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Great analysis, but outdated
All I can about this book is that it was great, but is now outdated. It provides a very clear picture of Vietnamese politics in the late 1980s, but much has changed since then. This book is useful for historical research and understanding the dynamics in the late 1970s, early 1980s. I would highly recommend the first chapter to anybody, as it interweaves the country's history with its authoritarian tendencies, and convincingly roots authoritarianism in ecological and economic crisis in the past. ... Read more

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In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations remarkable for their transparent procedures.

The quest for merit-based bureaucracy stemmed from the idea that good politics could be established through the "development of people"--the training of people to be politically useful. Centuries before civil service examinations emerged in the Western world, these three Asian countries were basing bureaucratic advancement on examinations in addition to patronage. But the evolution of the mandarinates cannot be accommodated by our usual timetables of what is "modern." The history of China, Vietnam, and Korea suggests that the rationalization processes we think of as modern may occur independently of one another and separate from such landmarks as the growth of capitalism or the industrial revolution.

A sophisticated examination of Asian political traditions, both their achievements and the associated risks, this book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history and on global historical time.

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Winning the Vietnam War proved easier than winning the peace. Since 1975, the reunited country has faced the problem of how a poorer, planned economy in which state ownership and control could successfully absorb a more advanced, capitalist economy. In addition, the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War heralded a new age in Vietnam’s internal and external relations.

Vietnam traces developments since the end of the Vietnam War, including recent economic reforms, the politics of the Communist Party, and the re-establishment of relations with the United States. It gives a comprehensive and informative overview of the current political and economic situation in Vietnam today.

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excerpts of articles - overpriced
The book is a commentary on Vietnam. Covering recent critical events like SAR, AIDS and the bird flu epidemic. There is a brief background on its history. But much of the text deals with the nature of the economy and prospects for future growth.

The biggest drawback is that the book is really a collection of excerpts from various newsarticles and reports. Hard to read as a coherent narrative. Though perhaps it should not be seen as such. The author intrudes only to the extent of picking the excerpts. I found very little to be gained from reading those articles.

At $110, the book seems overpriced, for what it offers. ... Read more

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