The Vietnam War: A Military History

The legacy of the Vietnam War continues to haunt American policymakers for the example it provides of a major power drawn gradually yet inexorably into a grinding conflict with no clear pathway for withdrawal. Claiming to be the first single-volume, comprehensive military history of the conflict, this new treatment is by Professor Geoffrey Wawro, Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas and the author of previous studies on US involvement in the Middle East and the First World War in Europe.