The Vietnam war : a military history / Geoffrey Wawro.
| Author/creator | Wawro, Geoffrey author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Basic Books, 2024. |
| Description | xiii, 652 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Parody of High Strategy -- No-Win War -- Eve of Destruction -- Strength only for Defeat -- Ia Drang -- "Nail the coonskins to the wall" -- "The country is behind you-50 percent" -- Jive at Five -- "We'll just go on bleeding them" -- "Victory is around the corner" -- Zenith of Fatuity -- Year of the Monkey -- Tet -- "We can keep on winning the war forever" -- Khe Sanh -- Mini-Tet -- A Better War? -- Hamburger Hill -- Search and Avoid -- "I will not be the first president to lose a war" -- "Cambodia is a man's job" -- Quiet Mutiny -- "The heaviest defeat ever for Nixon & Company" -- "We've made the war too much of a good thing" -- "Defeat is not an option" -- The Fall. |
| Abstract | 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. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-623) and index. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| ISBN | 9781541606081 |
| ISBN | 1541606086 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| Stock number | Perseus Books Group, C/O Hachette Book Group USA 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109 SAN 200-2205 |
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