A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and-at least for a time-results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-17-2009; Simply the truth.; Thanks to Lewis Sorley. This is an objective history. The truth is very difficult to bear. God bless the men and women who fought for the Republic of South Vietnam.JR; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-13-2009; Relevent for today; As a student of history and war, this book is relevent today. Excellent read with details not collated in other books...must read for students and Officers.; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2009; The other side of the story; Good book. Some of the reviewers who didn't like the book make some valid points but overall the book was good (not great). Yes, Sorley worships Abrams but I think the point is that one good man can make a big difference. That's the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-04-2009; Defeat from the jaws of victory; Superb analytical account of Creighton Abrams efforts to turn the war in America's favour. Lewis Sorley's access to classified Abrams documents, staff conferences,briefings etc places him in a unique position to be able to give the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-17-2009; Simply the truth.; Thanks to Lewis Sorley. This is an objective history. The truth is very difficult to bear. God bless the men and women who fought for the Republic of South Vietnam.JR; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-15-2006; Good But Overrated; I noted from the book's jacket that: "There was a moment when the United States had the Vietnam War wrapped up, writes military historian Lewis Sorley (biographer of two Vietnam-era U.S. Army generals, Creighton Abrams and Harold...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-16-2005; Old wine in a new bottle; Using new evidence from the Abrams papers, but failing to examine massive recent declassifications of Nixon's and others' papers and tapes, including Soviet, Chinese, and Vietnamese documents and accounts, Sorley essentially restates the...; read full review | report as inappropriate