Overview
This book surveys the tragically ill-fated role of the United States in Vietnam from the 1940s on. It bristles with insights into the personalities of the Cold Warriors and New Frontiersmen who planned and executed our opening moves there. It bears poignant witness to the might-have-beens of history. It portrays the military side of the war, on the battlefield and in the operations rooms, as no general history has done to date.