Author Description

This book on the Vietnam War deals more with tactics than strategy and attempts to march intimately into battle, portraying what the war was like for those Americans, South Vietnamese, and other allies as well as the Vietcong and North Vietnamese who fought it. It presents a sampling of the battles, pacification efforts, and other activities from the arrival of the first U.S. fighting forces in the spring of 1965 until the end of 1967. Many of these are first-hand accounts. Chapters: Americans in Vietnam; Masher/White Wing; pacification; Saigon's forces; the enemy; battlefield Indochina; Vietnam experiences; the border battles. Numerous color and B&W photos and maps.