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MILITARY HISTORY

NEW Why England Slept South Vietnamese

A Military History JOHN F. KENNEDY Soldiers
of the Modern FOREWORD BY Memories of the
STEPHEN C. SCHLESINGER
Middle East Vietnam War and After
NATHALIE HUYNH CHAU NGUYEN
JAMES BRIAN MCNABB

April 2016, 152pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-4990-9
$75.00, £58.00, €69.00
March 2016, 289pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
March 2017, 451pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Print: 978-1-4408-3241-3
Print: 978-1-4408-2963-5 Originally published in 1940, Why $48.00, £37.00, €44.00
$58.00, £45.00, €53.00 eBook: 978-1-4408-3242-0
eBook: 978-1-4408-2964-2 England Slept was written by then-
Harvard student and future American
president John F. Kennedy. It was “ Nguyen’s remarkable
“ solid analysis, it is an excellent Kennedy’s senior thesis that analyzed achievement is her ability
Packing concise history with

reference for anyone who the tremendous miscalculations of the to allow the veterans to
speak for themselves in this
British leaders in facing Germany on the
wants an overview of how war advent of World War II, and in doing groundbreaking study from that
has and continues to shape this so, also addressed the challenges that tragic conflict. Essential. All
” democracies face when confronted ”
region of the world. levels/libraries.
—New York Journal of Books, directly with fascist states. —Choice, October 3, 2016
March 30, 2017
FEATURES Published on the 40th anniversary of
This timely study synthesizes past • Provides fascinating insights into the the end of the war in Vietnam, this
history with the major military events young mind and worldview of then- book brings to life the experiences
and dynamics of the 20th- and 21st- Harvard senior John F. Kennedy via his and memories of South Vietnamese
century Middle East, helping readers thesis, for which he’d toured Europe, soldiers—the forgotten combatants of
understand the region’s present—and the Balkans, the Soviet Union, and this controversial conflict.
Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s
look into its future. FEATURES
FEATURES • Relates the stories of South
STEPHEN C. SCHLESINGER, JD, is
• Presents the evolution of combat and fellow at the Century Foundation in Vietnamese soldiers through a
military thought in the region from New York; author of Act of Creation: compelling narrative driven by oral
ancient times into the contemporary The Founding of The United Nations, histories
era, summarizing the impact of the winner of the 2004 Harry S. Truman • Brings the experiences of these
ancient and medieval worlds on the Book Award; former director of the soldiers to life for the reader by
modern Middle East World Policy Institute at the New sharing their compelling firsthand
School (1997–2006); and former accounts
publisher of the magazine The World
JAMES BRIAN MCNABB, PhD, is Policy Journal.
adjunct professor with Troy University’s NATHALIE HUYNH CHAU NGUYEN,
Master of Science in International PhD, is associate professor and
Relations (MSIR) program. Australian Research Council Future
Fellow at the National Centre for
Australian Studies at Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia.
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