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📘 America's Longest War by George Herring

First publish date: November 1985

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An incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront. The protagonists in Neale’s history of the “American War” (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage—American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt. His narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world’s most powerful military machine.

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by George C. Herring

George C. Herring examines the Vietnam War as the inevitable extension of U.S. containment policy from the Truman era, exploring the complex challenges it posed and the varied responses of American leaders and citizens.

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A definitive, single‑volume analysis of why U.S. policy led America into and ultimately lost the Vietnam War, featuring portraits of key decision makers and a foreword by Senator John McCain.

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