Title: America's longest war :
Authors: Herring, George C.,
Date: 1986
Publisher: Knopf :
Physical description: xv, 316 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: A dead-end alley: the United States, France and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954 -- Our offspring: nation-building in South Vietnam, 1954-1961 -- Limited partnership: Kennedy and Diem, 1961-1963 -- Enough, but not too much: Johnson's decisions for war, 1963-1965 -- On the tiger's back: the United States at war, 1965-1967 -- A very near thing: the Tet Offensive and after, 1968 -- A war for peace: Nixon, Kissinger, and Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- The "postwar war" and the legacy of Vietnam.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.; United States--History--1945-; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.; Vietnam--History--1945-1975.