I returned from Vietnam on 6 June, but it has taken me a while to get organized thanks to the recent Society for Military History (SMH) conference in Illinois. I have, however, had time to upload 1,600+ photos. The photos lack notes, but over time I will add descriptions. Also, I will write a rather in-depth post about my time in Vietnam and perhaps some notes on SMH. In the mean time, I have some work to complete. So for now, enjoy the photos.
This summer should prove eventful with my participation in a USM sponsored trip to Vietnam. This May I will be in Vietnam as a part of a program to bring veterans of the war back to the environs of Vietnam for the first time since the cessation of hostilities. It is not often that one gets an opportunity to witness a soldier reconnect with the past, especially those of the Vietnam War. Thus if anything it is this shared experience with a veteran that really makes me eager about going to Vietnam. It would be great to construct a dissertation that adequately infuses the firsthand accounts of inviduals with the the seemingling less human aspects of diplomacy and war planing. Consequently, I hope this trip will provided me with more insight into how to better combine the memories of soldiers with the wider diplomatic and strategic military elements of the Vietnam War. Put another way, the insights of a veteran will hopefully contextualize the strategic and diplomatic repercussion that emerged from events like the Tet Offensive. As such, travel to Vietnam is, for me, like going to the archives.
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The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. By Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall (eds). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0-674-02392-7. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 384. $27.00.
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Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950. By Mark Philip Bradley. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0-8078-4861-6. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 320. $26.00.
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Two additional books pertaining to the Vietnam War were recently added to my collection. While not new releases, these works should help me complete a few encyclopedia articles.
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The purpose of Thompson Werk is to present the musings of a US War and Society doctoral student. Discussion topics principally center around the World Wars and Vietnam.
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