Lost victory
Subtitle: a firsthand account of America's sixteen-year involvement in Vietnam
By: William Colby, with James McCargar.
Contributors: McCargar, James.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Colby, William Egan, 1920-; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
Description: "For sixteen years, from the time he was assigned Chief of Station for the CIA in Saigon to his appointment as CIA Director, William Colby was deeply involved in America's role in Vietnam. During five presidential administrations -- Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford -- Colby moved from meetings in the Oval Office to the sweltering jungles of Vietnam as the war escalated from Vietcong guerilla terrorism to a massive U.S. military engagement. Lost Victory is his personal account of those years, an insider's view of America's first major military defeat told from a vantage point matched by few other officials."--Book cover, p. [4]