Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam

Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9781504059121
ISBN-13 : 1504059123
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Book Synopsis Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam by : William C. Haponski

Download or read book Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam written by William C. Haponski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military studies professor and former combatant “rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides” of this thirty-year conflict (New York Journal of Books). Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in Washington, DC. The stark facts, though, are that the Vietnam War was lost before the first American shot was fired. In fact, it was lost before the first French Expeditionary Corps shot, almost two decades earlier, and was finally lost when the South Vietnamese fought partly, then entirely, on their own. Offering an informed narrative of the entire thirty-year war, this book seeks to explain why. Written by a combatant in six large battles and many smaller firefights who was also a leader with a full range of pacification duties, a commander who lost forty-three wonderful young men, Autopsy of an Unwinnable War is the result of a quest for answers by one who, after decades of wondering what it was all about, turned to a years-long search of French, American, and Vietnamese sources. This is a story lived and revealed mainly by the people inside Vietnam who were directly involved in the war, from leaders in high positions down to the jungle boots and sandals level of the fighters—and among the Vietnamese who were living it. Because of what was happening inside Vietnam itself, no matter what policies and directives came out of Paris or Washington, or the influences in Moscow or Beijing, it is about a Vietnamese idea that would eventually triumph over bullets. Includes photographs


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