A Companion to the Vietnam War (Blackwell Companions to American History)
Contributors: Amy Blackwell (Contributor); Mark Bradley (Contributor); Robert Brigham (Contributor); Marilyn Blatt Young (Editor); Robert Buzzanco (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780631210139
First sentence: The Vietnam War was "the quintessential conflict in the long history of warfare in our century," says Gabriel Kolko, who thinks it was "virtually preordained" that the USA would try to attain a vital military success to compensate for its failures in Korea