Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory nWatch Red Atoms on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/redatoms n nIn 1965, tens of thousands of US troops are heading for war in Vietnam. Backed up by B-52 bombers, helicopters and napalm, many expect the Viet Cong guerillas to crumble in the face of unstoppable US firepower. Instead, in the jungles and swamps of Vietnam, the Americans discover combat is an exhausting slog in which casualties are high and they rarely get to fire first.nn» SUPPORT US nhttps://patreon.com/realtimehistory nhttps://nebula.tv/realtimehistory nn» THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS nRaymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltjenn» SOURCESnAnderson, David L. The Vietnam War, (Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, 2005)nAppy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam, (Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1993)nAppy, Christian G. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides, (New York, NY : Viking, 2003)nBlasiot, Leonard A., Dawson, David A., Shulimson, Jack u0026 Smith, Charles R., U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year 1968, (Washington DC : History and Museums Division HQ, US Marine Corps, 1997)nBluhm Jr. Raymond K. (ed), The Vietnam War: A Chronology of War, (New York, NY : Universe Publishing, 2010)nCaputo, Philip, A Rumor of War, (New York, NY : Ballantine Books, 1977)nDepartment of the Army, Report of the M16 Rifle Review Panel, (Washington, DC : Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition, 1968)nEhrhart, W.D. Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, (Jefferson NC : McFarland, 1983)nGettleman, Marvin E. (ed), Vietnam: History, Documents and Opinions on a Major World Crisis, (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1967)nHayslip, Ly Le u0026 Wurts, John, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace, pp. X-xiv, in Ruane, Kevin (ed.), The Vietnam Wars, (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000)nKearns, Doris, “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream pp. 251-3" in Ruane, Kevin (ed.), The Vietnam Wars, (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000)nLanger, Howard J. The Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of Quotations, (Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2005))nLawrence, Mark Atwood, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) nLongley, Kyle, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam, (Armonk N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2008)nRotter, Andrew J. “Chronicle of a War Foretold: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1954" in Lawrence, Mark Atwood u0026 Logevall, Fredrik (eds), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007)nRuane, Kevin (ed.), The Vietnam Wars, (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000)nThee, Marek, “The Indochina Wars: Great Power Involvement - Escalation and Disengagement”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1976)nTiu Bin, Following Ho Chi Minh: the Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel, (Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, 1995)nTovy, Tal, The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War, (New York, NY : Routledge, 2021)nnnn»CREDITSnPresented by: Jesse AlexandernWritten by: Mark Newton, Jesse AlexandernDirector: Toni Steller u0026 Florian WittignDirector of Photography: Toni StellernSound: Above ZeronEditing: Toni Steller u0026 Philipp AppeltnMotion Design: Philipp AppeltnMixing, Mastering u0026 Sound Design: https://above-zero.comnResearch by: Mark NewtonnFact checking: Jesse Alexander, Florian WittignnChannel Design: Simon BuckmasternnContains licensed material by getty images and APnMaps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors u0026 GEOlayers3nMusic Library: Epidemic SoundnAll rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024
