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A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years
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A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam Soft cover - 2007

by Sorley, Lewis

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  • Title A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
  • Author Sorley, Lewis
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvest, Orlando, FL
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # His 189
  • ISBN 9780156013093 / 0156013096
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.3 x 1.27 in (20.40 x 13.46 x 3.23 cm)
  • Themes
    • 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
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99010495
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

Summary

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 from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and-at least for a time-results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.

From the publisher

A third-generation graduate of West Point, Lewis Sorley 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 in the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times, an excerpt of which won the 1991 Harold Peterson Prize as the year's best scholarly article on American military history, and of Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

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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.

From the jacket flap

"An important new book...Mr. Sorley has provided a major challenge to the conventional wisdom." -- Washington Times

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Media reviews

"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

About the author

A third-generation graduate of West Point, Lewis Sorley 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 in the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times, an excerpt of which won the 1991 Harold Peterson Prize as the year's best scholarly article on American military history, and of Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

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