A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam Tapa blanda - 2007
de Lewis Sorley
Resumen
Primera línea
WHEN, IN JANUARY 1964, General William C. Westmoreland was sent to Vietnam as deputy to General Paul Harkins-and became, a few months later, his successor in command of U.S. forces there-he was chosen from a slate of four candidates presented to President Lyndon Johnson.
Descripción de contraportada
The hot book among Iraq strategists. --David Ignatius, The Washington Post
Lewis Sorley s important and influential book A Better War sheds light on the often neglected final years in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 and revises our knowledge of the war and its conclusion. Drawing on his exclusive access to still classified tape-recorded meetings of the highest levels of military command in Vietnam, Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in the conception, the conduct, and--at least for a time--the results after General Creighton Abrams succeeded to the top military post in 1968. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War is an insightful history and a great human drama of purposeful and principled service in the face of an agonizing succession of lost opportunities--and it is never as important as it is now.
"A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post-Tet offensive years." --The New York Times
"The book is the missing link in the history of the Vietnam War. It opens the old arguments up again and shows them in a new light." --Strategic Review
"[A Better War] is an outstanding piece of work, historically important with its use of new evidence, intellectually challenging with its suggestion of new interpretations of events, and highly readable." --Army
Lewis Sorley, a third-generation graduate of West Point, also holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has served in the U.S. Army, on staff at the Pentagon, and later as a senior civilian official of the Central Intelligence Agency. He lives in Maryland."
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The hot book among Iraq strategists. --David Ignatius, The Washington Post
Lewis Sorley s important and influential book A Better War sheds light on the often neglected final years in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 and revises our knowledge of the war and its conclusion. Drawing on his exclusive access to still classified tape-recorded meetings of the highest levels of military command in Vietnam, Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in the conception, the conduct, and--at least for a time--the results after General Creighton Abrams succeeded to the top military post in 1968. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War is an insightful history and a great human drama of purposeful and principled service in the face of an agonizing succession of lost opportunities--and it is never as important as it is now.
"A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post-Tet offensive years." --The New York Times
"The book is the missing link in the history of the Vietnam War. It opens the old arguments up again and shows them in a new light." --Strategic Review
"[A Better War] is an outstanding piece of work, historically important with its use of new evidence, intellectually challenging with its suggestion of new interpretations of events, and highly readable." --Army
Lewis Sorley, a third-generation graduate of West Point, also holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has served in the U.S. Army, on staff at the Pentagon, and later as a senior civilian official of the Central Intelligence Agency. He lives in Maryland."
Detalles
- Título A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
- Autor Lewis Sorley
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: First
- Páginas 544
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Mariner Books, Orlando, FL
- Fecha de publicación 2007-04-10
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780156013093 / 0156013096
- Peso 1.09 libras (0.49 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.03 x 5.3 x 1.27 pulgadas (20.40 x 13.46 x 3.23 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99010495
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
Reseñas en medios
"An extraordinary piece of work that is bound to become a valuable part of historical documentation about the war in Vietnam. The first to set the record straight concerning the outcome of that conflict."H. Norman Schwarzkopf, General, U.S. Army, Retired
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