Hard Looks at Hidden History
Historians have failed to help Americans understand what the war was all about. So charges this scholar, author, and Vietnam veteran.
A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were really high — and yet military men actually trusted newsmen.
The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat.
After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.”
A domino theory, distant wilderness warfare, the notion of “defensive enclaves,” hawks, doves, hired mercenaries, possible intervention by hostile powers, a Little trouble telling friendly natives from unfriendly—George III went through the whole routine