General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts―the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare. In Giap, military historian James A. Warren dives deep into the conflict to bring to life a revolutionary general and reveal the groundbreaking strategies that defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is more than a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric. As America's wars in the Middle East rage on, this is an important and timely look at a man who was a master at defeating his enemies even as they thought they were winning.

Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam

Biographies & Memoirs

Warren, James A.

Leaders & Notable People

St.Martin's Press

Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c. 1800-1945 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate gambling through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws. By the mid-twentieth century, most forms of gambling had been made illegal, a situation that persists until today. This historical study, based on a wide variety of Thai- and English-language archival sources including government reports, legal cases and newspapers, places the criminalization of gambling in Thailand in the broader context of the country’s socio-economic transformation and the modernization of the Thai state. Particular attention is paid to how state institutions, such as the police and judiciary, and different sections of Thai society shaped and subverted the law to advance their own interests. Finally, the book compares the Thai government’s policies on gambling with those on opium use and prostitution, placing the latter in the context of an international clampdown on vice in the early twentieth century.

Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Reference

Routledge

A six-decade history of the U.S. Marines offers insight into the corps' philosophy and military practices, explaining how technology, training, and a fiercely promoted sense of loyalty have enabled Marine perseverance through many conflicts.

American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq

History

Americas

Free Press

A discussion of the causes, events, and aftermath of the longest and most controversial conflict in American history

Portrait of a Tragedy: America and the Vietnam War

Children's Books

Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard

A discussion of the causes, events, and aftermath of the longest and most controversial conflict in American history.

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

James A. Warren's battle-driven history shows how this elite culture has produced the best warriors in the country, through six decades, several open wars, and many smaller interventions. From their heroic performance in the Pacific War against Japanese troops on godforsaken islands, to their "tip-of-the-lance" leadership in key operations in the two Gulf Wars, the Marines have proven again and again that elite men with elite training are worth entire armies. This is the first modern history of the Marines in a generation and the first to show how battlefield performance has driven the Marines, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.

American Spartans Lib/E: The Us Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq

Military

Blackstone Publishing

The Lions of Iwo Jima tells the full story of one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. Combat Team 28, 4500 men strong, trained for a full year, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat. Major General Fred Haynes USMC (Ret’d), then a young captain, is the last surviving officer in CT28 intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the Team’s fight on Iwo Jima. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, and letters, in addition to more than 100 interviews with survivors, Haynes and Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines of Combat Team 28 experienced, placing particular emphasis on the Team’s ferocious struggle to break through the main belt of the Japanese defenses to the north, and reduce the final pocket of resistance on the island in Bloody Gorge. 
The Lions of Iwo Jima offers fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag raising photo, and the nature of the campaign as a whole, and helps to answer the essential questions: Who were these men? What accounts for their extraordinary performance in battle?

The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History

Haynes, Fred

Henry Holt and Co.

"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."―James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys 
Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously wounded. The stories told here, many for the first time, will seem too cruel, too heartbreaking to be believed. As one veteran remarked, "Each day we learned a new way to die." 
Major General Fred Haynes, then a young captain, is the last surviving office in CT 28 who was intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the team's fight on Iwo Jima. In this astonishing narrative, Haynes and James A. Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines experienced, drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, letters, and interviews with survivors to offer fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag-raising photograph, and the nature of the campaign as a whole.

Haynes USMC-RET, Major General Fred

Holt Paperbacks

An Index to Oxfordian Publications

Catalogs & Directories

Forever Press

An index of all the articles published in Oxfordian newsletters and journals from 1937 through 2012. The index also includes selected entries for articles, essays and chapters from books published on the Shakespeare authorship debate from the mid-19th century through 2012. The index contains more than 4,700 unique entries in total, arranged in a main index by author/title and in separate sub-sections by author/title under each individual issue of a newsletter or journal title, by book and film reviews (under the book author's name or under the film title) and by obituaries under the name of prominent Oxfordians.
 "A superb resource. Any serious researcher on the Shakespeare authorship question or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, must own this book." -- Dr. Roger Stritmatter, Chopin State University.

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Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam

Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq

Portrait of a Tragedy: America and the Vietnam War

Portrait of a Tragedy: America and the Vietnam War

American Spartans Lib/E: The Us Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq

The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History

The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History

An Index to Oxfordian Publications

An Index to Oxfordian Publications