Description: “Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York TimesThe Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro’s The Vietnam War offers a definitive account of a war of choice that was doomed from its inception. In devastating detail, Wawro narrates campaigns where US troops struggled even to find the enemy in the South Vietnamese wilderness, let alone kill sufficient numbers to turn the tide in their favor. Yet the war dragged on, prolonged by presidents and military leaders who feared the political consequences of accepting defeat. In the end, no number of young lives lost or bombs dropped could prevent America’s ally, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime, from collapsing the moment US troops retreated.Broad, definitive, and illuminating, The Vietnam War offers an unsettling, resonant story of the limitations of American power.
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Publication Name: The Vietnam War
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: Historical
Title: The Vietnam War
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Subtitle: A Military History
Type: United States
EAN: 9781541606081
Unit Type: Unit
ISBN: 9781541606081
Release Year: 2024
Era: 1960s
ISBN-10: 1541606086
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Release Date: 12/05/2024
Book Title: Vietnam War : a Military History
Number of Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 2.1 in
Topic: Asia / Southeast Asia, Military / General, Military / Vietnam War, Asia / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 32.7 Oz
Author: Geoffrey Wawro
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
