Description: The first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam The 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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Book Title: Vietnam War : a Military History
Number of Pages: 672 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Topic: Asia / Southeast Asia, Military / General, Asia / General, Military / Vietnam War
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 2.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 32.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Geoffrey Wawro
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
