ASIN: B00LU0NIOE
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 177
1968: a time of protests. American personnel on R and R - Rest and Recreation - drug culture, corruption, free love, of which I had been a reluctant non-participant, and the decline of European communism. In addition, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the resistance to totalitarianism in Poland, East Germany and the Soviet Union; with communist revolutions in Cambodia and Vietnam taking a hold and shaking to hell out of the West, our governments' were in a quandary. Furthermore, with the violent student demonstrations in western democracies and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon then came to power in the United States and escalated the war in Vietnam. This was due to the Tet Offensive early in 1968, which saw the near defeat of allied forces’ and the takeover of the south by their northern antagonists. Sponsored by China at the time the affinity ...
