Advice and Support: The Early Years 1941-1960; The U. S. Army in Vietnam, CMH Pub 91-1
Washington DC: U. S. Army, Center for Military History, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 391, [5] pages. Trade Paperback. Illustrations. Maps (with some color). Footnotes. Table. Charts. Bibliographical note. Index. Slight wear to cover and edges. Minor corner ding to the top of some pages. Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He has been a Professor at the George Washington University. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph.D from Yale University. Spector was a Senior Fulbright scholar in India from 1977 to 1978. He has taught at the National War College, the University of Alabama, and the U.S. Army War College. He has been on the faculty of The George Washington University in Washington, DC. More