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HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE, AND MEMORY STUDIES

Discussion published by Edwin Moise on Monday, January 17, 2022

Re: January 2022 New Year Handgrenade

None of the sources to which you give links says that Westmoreland made a trip to Washington during the period between the Tet Offensive and LBJ's famous speech of March 31, 1968, in which LBJ, without mentioning that Westmoreland had asked for a large addition to US strength in South Vietnam, made it pretty clear that he was only going to send a modest addition to US strength.

This confirms me in my belief that no such visit occurred during the period when LBJ was considering Westmoreland's request.

Discussion published by Wyatt Reader M.A. on Sunday, January 16, 2022

Re: January 2022 New Year Handgrenade

Just a quick online sources search gives the below 4-5 webpages, which indicate date may have been off between March 3 and 7 April 68; this last date given as Gen. Westmoreland in DC.

Essentially the outcome was same as previously mentioned, with number of post-Tet troops being denied.

April might have been the date as weather was good at that time for a tennis match at Ft. McNair on the Sunday it happened.

H-War Book Reviews

Review published on Thursday, January 13, 2022
Author: 
R. Bruce Larson
Reviewer: 
Zayna N. Bizri

Bizri on Larson, 'Secrets and Rivals: Wartime Letters and the Parents I Never Knew'

R. Bruce Larson. Secrets and Rivals: Wartime Letters and the Parents I Never Knew. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015. 188 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2052-3. 

Reviewed by Zayna N. Bizri (George Mason University) Published on H-War (January, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Review published on Thursday, January 13, 2022
Author: 
Theodore Voorhees Jr.
Reviewer: 
Jeffrey Poquette

Poquette on Voorhees Jr., 'The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game'

Theodore Voorhees Jr. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. vi + 372 pp. $69.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-472-12671-2; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13192-1.

Reviewed by Jeffrey Poquette (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Review published on Thursday, January 13, 2022
Author: 
Purnima Bose
Reviewer: 
Joseph Stieb

Stieb on Bose, 'Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror'

Purnima Bose. Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror. War Culture Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 234 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978805-98-9. 

Review published on Thursday, January 6, 2022
Author: 
Allison S. Finkelstein
Reviewer: 
Kathryn Angelica

Angelica on Finkelstein, 'Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945'

Allison S. Finkelstein. Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945. War, Memory, and Culture Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021. Illustrations. 288 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-2101-7. 

Review published on Thursday, January 6, 2022
Author: 
Ankit Panda
Reviewer: 
Gordon Vincent

Vincent on Panda, 'Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea'

Ankit Panda. Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xv + 393 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-006036-7. 

Reviewed by Gordon Vincent (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (January, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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