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Title Withdrawal : reassessing America's final years in Vietnam / Gregory A. Daddis.
Publisher New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Description xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm


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 WB-Adult Collection  959.7043 DAD Nearby on shelf  3 0672 00308 8671 08-09-18  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Limits of Strategy in a Stalemated War; 1. Abe's "One War": Continuity in Change; 2. Vietnamization: Policy of Withdrawal or Strategy for "Victory"?; 3. Pacification without Peace: The Travails of Nation Building; 4. Balancing a War: The Coordination of Force and Diplomacy; 5. A Beleaguered Army at a Long War's End; 6. From Victory to Defeat?: Abrams's Final Years Epilogue and Conclusions: Questioning "Victory" in an American WarNotes; Index.
Summary In a riveting sequel to his celebrated Westmoreland's War, Daddis offers a bold new interpretation of America's first lost war. Upending myths of a ""better war"" that led to victory in Vietnam, Withdrawal is required reading for anyone hoping to understand the final years of American intervention in Southeast Asia.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
United States -- History.
Other title Reassessing America's final years in Vietnam
ISBN 9780190691080
0190691085