Backfire
Subtitle: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Published: March 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780688041854
Subjects: Civilization; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Sociology; U.S. History - Vietnam Conflict (1965-1973); 1945-; United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
First sentence: In 1972, while worshiping in a temple near an American air base, Colonel Chuc sank into a trance and received a battle plan and a magical sword from the spirit of the Vietnamese general who defeated Kublai Khan's Mongols seven hundred years earlier.