The Vietnam War is only one of the many aspects of the VWAM website. This site contains a great deal of information on: the Vietnam war, Vietnam war photos, the ethnic peoples of Vietnam, current events in Vietnam, and more. We also offer an extensive selection of photos of this ...
In the making ofForgetting Vietnamone of the commitments I kept in relation to war images was the following: most of the films made on the war in Vietnam show you the horrors of war mainly through what constitutes the sensational in cinema. So: explosions, bombings, killings, bodies, build...
On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed, officially bringing to an end the American war in Vietnam. One of the prerequisites for and provisions of the accords was the return of all U.S. prisoners of war (POWs). On February 12 the first o
Vietnam's industrial development was hampered by more than three decades of war, but as a result of economic reforms that began in the late 20th cent. and accelerated in the early 21st cent., there has been considerable industrial development. Important industries include food processing; ...
The US administration, unlike-most governments at war, made no official attempt to censure the reporting in the Vietnam War. Every night on colour television people saw pictures of dead and wounded marines. Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, pointed out that: "This was the first struggle foug...
Harold Holt (born Aug. 5, 1908, Sydney—died Dec. 17, 1967, near Portsea, Victoria, Australia) was the prime minister of Australia (1966–67) who supported U.S. policies in Vietnam and sponsored the visit to Australia of Lyndon B. Johnson, the first American president-in-office to ...
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The Vietnam War Irene Wernicke [irene.wernicke@chello.at] Introduction: The Vietnam War is probably the biggest trauma in the US history.No other war before was that much discussed like this one .A whole generation was rapped to fight a war for another country under the pseudonym of freedo...
Vietnam in pictures Indulge your love of history Become a local for the day Visit the floating markets of the Mekong Delta Cycle or trek through the Mai Chau Valley Relax at one of Vietnam's luxury resorts Visit Vietnam War related places in Ho Chi Minh City ...
But because so much of his career was spent shooting on deadline for newspapers in London — the Daily Express, in particular — he remains far less well-known than many of his globetrotting peers, whose pictures routinely appeared in glossy weekly or monthly magazines in the 1950s, '60s, ...