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The Vietnam War
- A Military History
Engelsk Hardback
The Vietnam War
- A Military History
Engelsk Hardback

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“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 Times

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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
672
ISBN-13:
9781541606081
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1541606086
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Udg. Dato:
5 dec 2024
Længde:
52mm
Bredde:
246mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Basic Books
Oplagsdato:
5 dec 2024
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