Vietnam: A History

This one is about the Vietnam War and is the complete package . . . unabridged, chapterized & illustrated audiobook (w/ audiobook companion); eBook; and lots of great reference material!

There are two complete and unabridged versions of the audiobook in this torrent . . . you can choose either the mp3 version (40 files in total, edited by chapter - m3u included for your convenience), or you can choose the fully chapterized m4b version for iPod/iPhone and similar devices (3 chapterized files with chapter illustrations - NOTE: the photo captions can be found on your iPod chapter menu along with it's appropriate chapter/part title). NOTE: the book has 16 chapters, but most are very long and I have subdivided most chapters so that the files are not too unwieldy. Both versions are at 56 kb/s (the same rate as the original files)

Along with alternate covers, author biopic, and info text, I have included a bunch of extras in the file . . .

- A pdf audiobook companion eBook containing all of the orig. print version's photo's, maps & appendices (NOTE: The photo essays were placed at the beginning of each chapter and are meant to be viewed prior to listening to the particular chapter).
- The pdf eBook version of the book in case you'd like to follow along with the audiobook.
- The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, Vols. I - IV (combined into a single file)
- A Companion to the Vietnam War (an excellent series of essays on the Vietnam War)
- A folder of great maps for you to refer to (most are very large scale and can be zoomed-in quite far).

All files are fully tagged for ID1, ID3 and iTunes (even the eBooks are tagged for iTunes). You will find the entire Info.txt, including the complete table of contents, on your lyrics window.



"This is history writing at it's best."
–CHICAGO SUN-TIMES



TABLE OF CONTENTS . . .

I. OPENING CREDITS (00:38) - [PHOTO: Orig. Hardback/Softback front cover]
II. BACK COVER MATERIAL (01:08) - [PHOTO: Orig. Hardback/Softback rear cover]
III. DEDICATION & QUOTATION (00:14) - [PHOTO: Quote imposed over US soldiers]
IV. PREFACE TO THE [1990] REVISED EDITION (08:08) - [PHOTO: Author - Stanley Karnow]
01. The War Nobody Won [TOTAL LENGTH - 2:33:18]
PART 1 (32:17) - [PHOTO: Vietnam War Memorial]
PART 2 (41:40) - [PHOTO: Tomb of Ho Chi Minh]
PART 3 (41:35) - [PHOTO: 'Re-education' camp in southern Vietnam]
PART 4 (37:46) - [PHOTO: Vietnamese 'Boat People']
02. Piety and Power [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:38:58]
PART 1 (45:35) - [PHOTO: Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, bishop of Adran]
PART 2 (53:24) - [PHOTO: Emperor Minh Mang]
03. The Heritage of Vietnamese Nationalism [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:23:44]
PART 1 (29:57) - [PHOTO: Nguyen Ai Quoc at a French Socialist party congress]
PART 2 (53:47) - [PHOTO: Paul Doumer, Gov. of Indochina, later Pres. of France]
04. The War with the French [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:27:48]
PART 1 (29:40) - [PHOTO: Ho Chi Minh declares independence of Vietnam]
PART 2 (58:09) - [PHOTO: Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap reviewing troops in 1951]
05. The Light That Failed [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:45:49]
PART 1 (25:25) - [PHOTO: Ho Chi Minh & Gen. Giap planning for Dien Bien Phu]
PART 2 (41:55) - [PHOTO: Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]
PART 3 (38:30) - [PHOTO: French soldiers in trenches at Dien Bien Phu]

06. America's Mandarin [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:17:22]
PART 1 (45:03) - [PHOTO: South Vietnam Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem]
PART 2 (32:20) - [PHOTO: Col. Edward Lansdale with Diem]
07. Vietnam Is the Place (1:01:48) - [PHOTO: V-P Johnson with Ngo Dinh Diem, 1961]
08. The End of Diem [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:34:55]
PART 1 (29:59) - [PHOTO: Buddhist monk burns himself in anti-gov. protest]
PART 2 (1:04:56) - [PHOTO: Body of Ngo Dinh Diem]
09. The Commitments Deepen [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:20:55]
PART 1 (1:00:30) - [PHOTO: Sec't McNamara tours Vietnam with Gen. Khanh]
PART 2 (20:25) - [PHOTO: Gen. Westmorland & Amb. Maxwell Taylor]
10. Disorder and Decision [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:27:15]
PART 1 (1:02:51) - [PHOTO: Sen. Fulbright & LBJ consult over Tonkin Resolution]
PART 2 (24:25) - [PHOTO: State Sec't Dean Rusk, Pres. Johnson & Sec't McNamara]
11. LBJ Goes to War [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:34:00]
PART 1 (39:48) - [PHOTO: First Amer. troops land in Vietnam]
PART 2 (54:12) - [PHOTO: Johnson cabinet meeting discussing Vietnam]

12. Escalation [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:47:22]
PART 1 (29:03) - [PHOTO: Black market on Saigon street]
PART 2 (40:59) - [PHOTO: LBJ at a meeting with Nguyen Cao Ky in Honolulu]
PART 3 (37:21) - [PHOTO: Oper. Rolling Thunder; F-105's over N. Vietnam]
13. Debate, Diplomacy, Doubt [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:41:22]
PART 1 (45:29) - [PHOTO: McNamara briefing Pres. Johnson at the LBJ ranch]
PART 2 (55:54) - [PHOTO: Anti-war protest at the Pentagon, Oct 1967]
14. Tet [TOTAL LENGTH - 2:06:22]
PART 1 (1:07:30) - [PHOTO: The Battle for Hue]
PART 2 (58:53) - [PHOTO: U.S. Embassy in Saigon after VC assault]
15. Nixon's War [TOTAL LENGTH - 1:42:31]
PART 1 (1:04:05) - [PHOTO: Wreckage from the 'Christmas Bombings' in Hanoi]
PART 2 (38:26) - [PHOTO: Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho]
16. The Peace That Never Was [TOTAL LENGTH - 2:06:50]
PART 1 (45:19) - [PHOTO: North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon]
PART 2 (41:41) - [PHOTO: Released P.O.W.'s return home]
PART 3 (39:51) - [PHOTO: Evacuation of Saigon]

APPENDIX I: Chronology
APPENDIX II: Cast of Principal Characters
APPENDIX III: Photo Credits

Part 1 - 8:59:49
Part 2 - 8:16:18
Part 3 - 9:24:29
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Total - 26:40:36



SUMMARY . . .

In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia, and recounts the political and military events that occurred after the Americans arrived in Vietnam. Throughout, he focuses on people: those who shaped strategy and those who suffered, died, or survived as a result.

Panoramic in scope, and filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with hundreds of participants on both sides, Vietnam: A History transcends the past and contains lessons relevant to the present and future.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR (from front endpaper) . . .

STANLEY KARNOW began his journalistic career in Paris in 1950 as a Time correspondent. He went to Southeast Asia for Time and Life in 1959 and subsequently reported from there for the Washington Post. He has been a correspondent for The Observer (London), the Saturday Evening Post, and NBC NEWS as well as an editor of The New Republic, and is now a syndicated columnist and director of the International Writers Service. He is the author of two other books, one of which, "Mao and China; From Revolution to Revolution," is also published by Penguin Books, and he served as chief correspondent for the series "Vietnam: A Television History." Stanley Karnow was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. A resident of Potomac, Maryland, he is married and the father of three children.



ABOUT THE READER . . .

EDWARD HOLLAND is a published narrator. A published credit of Edward Holland is The Man Who Loved God. NOTE: No photo is currently available.