A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam, Paperback - Lewis Sorley

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Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robert ZaretskyNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 23Cover type:...

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Reducere. General Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the time this book was first published in 199...

Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century

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In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive military offensive designed to deliver the coup de grace to South Vietnam and its rapidly d...

Reducere. Pati Navalta Poblete's world is shattered when her 23-year-old son, Robby, is violently killed. She blames God, gun violence and the town where he ...

"Tony Hirashiki was simply one of the best television cameramen to cover the Vietnam War. His soaring video, often acquired only at great personal ...

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A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It sho...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles aga...

Reducere. Fifty years after he served in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, Marine Colonel Robert Fischer, a former lecturer on "Strategy ...

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"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

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Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...