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A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley (1999, Hardcover)

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Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing on authoritative materials not previously available, including thousands of hours of tape-recorded allied councils of war, award-winning military historian Lewis Sorley has given us what has long been needed-an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these important years. Among his findings is that the war was being won on the ground even as it was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress. The story is a great human drama of purposeful and principled service in the face of an agonizing succession of lost opportunities, told with uncommon understanding and compassion. Sorley documents the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and-at least for a time-results between the early and the later war. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War is sure tostimulate controversy as it sheds brilliant new light on the war in Vietnam.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151002665
ISBN-13
9780151002665
eBay Product ID (ePID)
737596

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Book Title
Better War : the Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
Author
Lewis Sorley
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Military / Vietnam War
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
31 Oz

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Ds558.S65 1999
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"Sorley's book is as important a reexamination of the operational course of the war as Robert McNamara's In Retrospect is of the conflict's moral and political history."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "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, "Sorley's book is as important a reexamination of the operational course of the war as Robert McNamara's In Retrospect is of the conflict's moral and political history."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "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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Lccn
99-010495

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by q929uTQvTWG@Del...Mar 15, 2007
The "American War" Revisited
By the Spring of 1969, the American troop level was at it's peak in Vietnam; at home, however, America's patience and will to fight the communists in southeast Asia had ebbed away. This important work illuminates how we did not learn from the French in the early part of the war, squandered our support at home during the Westmoreland period, and then found our way under Abrams after Tet 1968. ARVN forces with improved MACV support under Abrams fought "A Better War" until finally betrayed by the cut-off of funding by the U.S. Congress. Lewis Sorley, in meticulous detail, shows us how the war was won on the ground despite incredible micro-management from Washington. Ultimately, he shows how the North Vietnamese communists were able to prevail despite their own many blunders through a resolute will and unwavering support from Russia and China; in contrast, the ARVN forces were gradually weakened and demoralized by the American betrayal. There is a strong underlying message in this book. Several of the Congressmen from the Vietnam era still hold office today. They betrayed thier friends in Vietnam then and they would betray our friends in Iraq today. Are we doomed to repeat the errors of our past? Do we as a nation have the resolute will to defeat evil and stand by our friends in the future?Read full review

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