From the Rivers to the Sea; The U.S. Navy in Vietnam

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 418 pages. Some wear and small chips to dust jacket edges. Includes a Preface, 12 black and white maps in the text, and 39 black and white photographs in the text. Epilogue, Source Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include From Earliest Times to the Indochina War; The Indochina War, 1946-54; The Advisory Period, 1954-64; The Readiness of the Navy for Limited War; The Tonkin Gulf--Beyond the Point of No Return; 1965--The Origins of Market Time and Game Warden; The Building of Naval Forces Vietnam, 1966-67; The Air War--Clipping the Wings of Eagles; Tet,1968; Sea Lords; ACTOV; Giant Slingshot and Barrier Reef; Saigon, Reductio ad Absurdum; Sea Float/Solid Anchor; The Naval War in the North; A Boy Named Chou; Ready Deck; The Forest of Assassins; A Swift Boat Officer's War; Breezy Cove; The Unraveling; The Navy's Helping Hand; and End Game. Schreadley is a retired Navy commander and former executive editor of a newspaper. Filled with authoritative detail and firsthand immediacy, this book is the only single-volume history available of the U.S. Navy's twenty-five-year involvement in Vietnam. It examines naval air, surface, coastal, riverine, and special forces operations at every level. Based largely on interviews with participants and supported by official records, this account chronicles and analyzes all components of the navy's twenty-five year involvement in Vietnam. From the Rivers to the Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam by Commander Richard L. Schreadley, U.S. Navy (Retired), is the first one-volume, comprehensive history of the U.S. Navy's multifaceted roles in the Vietnam War. Other works have concentrated on the so-called "brown-water navy" or on the air war over North Vietnam, but none have had the panoramic sweep and vivid detail of this important new book. It rings with the authenticity of documented research and personal insight, having been carefully conceived, cogently analytical, and beautifully written.