Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia by Isaacs, Arnold R

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1983. Hard Cover. xv, 559 p., illus., index; 23 cm. "A gripping account of one of the century's most harrowing human catastrophes-- the fall of South Vietnam-- 'Without Honor' captures the tragedy and the irony of the Vietnam War's last days and examines the consequences of the American military and political decisions that had sustained the war effort for a generation only to lead to the worst foreign policy failure in the nation's history" [until Iraq]. "What the United States lacked in Vietnam was not persistence but understanding--that and the flexibility to change policies that had proven bankrupt." Bibliography, pp. 535-549. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU136.