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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

George C. Herring
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
Spring 1980
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
George C. Herring
Wiley
1979
298 pp.
$12.95
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An excellent survey incorporating original research, commanding the almost uncontrollable secondary literature, and avoiding tendentious argument. Designed for the informed reader seeking broad historical background.

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