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

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By George C. Herring

Wiley, 1979, 298 pp

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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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