Vietnam Experience America Takes Over 1965-67, The by Doyle, Edward; Lipsman, Samuel and the editors of Boston Publishing Company

Boston: Boston Publishing Company Lightly Scratched on Boards; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. CONTENTS: Chapter 1/War Footing; Chapter 2/LBJ: Commander in Chief; Chapter 3/Search and Destroy; Chapter 4/The "Other" War; Chapter 5/Three Battles; Chapter 6/The International Front; Chapter 7/The War Comes Home; Chapter 8/A Year of Momentum?; Names, Acronyms, Terms; PICTURE ESSAYS Cam Ranh Bay; American Firepower; Small Arms; Operation Prairie; MAPS Spring-Summer 1965; South Vietnam; Operation Starlite; Cam Ranh Bay; Three Battlefields: Operation Cedar Falls, Operation Hastings, Operation Coronado V; Operation Junction City; Troop Disposition. ABOUT THE EDITORS AND AUTHORS: Editor-in-Chief: Robert Manning, a long-time journalist, has previously been editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly magazine and its press. He served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has also been a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Authors: Edward Doyle, an historian, received his masters degree at the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Samuel Lipsman, a former Fulbright Scholar, received his M.A. and M.Phil. in history at Yale. Mr. Doyle and Mr. Lipsman have coauthored other volumes in The Vietnam Experience. Historical Consultants: David P. Chandler, a former U.S. foreign service officer, is research director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His major publications include In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (coauthor) and The Land and People of Cambodia. Vincent H. Demma, an historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, is currently working on the center's history of the Vietnam conflict. Lee Ewing, editor of Army Times, served two years in Vietnam as a combat intelligence officer with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) and the 101st Airborne Division. Ernest May is Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University. Picture Consultant: Ngo Vinh Long is a social historian specializing in China and Vietnam. Born in Vietnam, he returned there most recently in 1980. His books include Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French and Report From a Vietnamese Village.. First Edition 7th Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.