Images of a Lengthy War; The United States Army in Vietnam, CMH Pub 91-11
Washington DC: United States Army, Center of Military History, 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 225, [3] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps (with color). Index. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. Top right corner of front cover creased. The United States Army in Vietnam is a multivolume history of the Army's involvement in the Vietnam conflict. This series treats a full rang of topics, from combat operations and advisory and pacification efforts, to logistics, communications, medical support, and engineer activities, to relations with the press and decisions at the Department of the Army level. This volume, Images of a Lengthy War, covers through pictures and brief narrative all aspects of the U.S. Army's activities in Vietnam from 1945 to 1973. The author received his B.A. from Yale and this Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. In 1970 and 1971,. he served with the U. S. Army in Vietnam as commander of a military history detachment, attaining the rank of Captain. He taught history at the university level and did postdoctoral research before joining the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1975. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Vietnam War, Pictorial Works, Indochina, De Lattre, Viet Cong, Insurgency, William Westmoreland, Tet Offensive, Pacification, Tonkin, Ia Drang, Lam Son, Border Security, Counterguerrilla, Ngo Dinh Diem, Giap, Military Assistance Advisory Group, MAAG
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