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Good. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. Cover has surface/edge wear. A definitive account of America's first military involvements in Vietnam. *** 391pp. *** Index. *** 1st ptg.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very good. 391, wraps, illus., maps, footnotes, table, charts, bibliographical note, index, slight wear to cover edges. Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He has been a Professor at the George Washington University. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph. D from Yale University. Spector was a Senior Fulbright scholar in India from 1977 to 1978. He has taught at the National War College, the University of Alabama, and the U.S. Army War College. He has been on the faculty of The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Drawing on recently declassified Pentagon files and other official documents, the author concludes that gross ignorance of Vietnamese society, language, and culture, and a dogged Can-Do attitude in the field, prevented American advisory forces from realistically appraising either the viability of the South Vietnamese army or the soundness of the government it supported. Advice and Support describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, Ronald Spector's interesting book is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.
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Good. xxii, [2], 391, [1] pages. Cover wear noted. Includes Foreword, Preface to the Free Press Edition, Assessment, Footnotes. Bibliographical Note, Index, Table, Charts, Maps, and Illustrations. Topics covered include The American Discovery of Vietnam; The Franco--Viet Minh War; and Going It Alone. Also includes 86 black and white illustrations in the text. The author of a widely red history of the Vietnam conflict observed that "in a sense we discovered Vietnam in 1954." This American discovery came about as a result of the imminent collapse of French power in Indochina. The factors involved in the French collapse went back many years, and in some respects centuries, before the 1950s. These factors, while clear enough to present-day historians, were not at all obvious to the American leaders of the 1950s, who for the most part lacked a knowledge of Vietnamese culture and history. Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He has been a Professor at the George Washington University. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph. D from Yale University. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation. Advice and Support describes the activities of the U.S. Army in Vietnam during World War II, military advice and assistance to the French government during the immediate postwar years, and the advisory program that developed after the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Its scope ranges from high-level policy decisions to low-echelon advisory operations in the field, presented against a background of relevant military and political developments. Useful not only as a study of military assistance but as a view of the Army as an agent of national policy, Ronald Spector's interesting book is a fitting introduction to the overall study of the conflict in Vietnam.
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Very Good+ 0029303702. Perfect bound illustrated softcover, sharp and square. Book is firm in its binding, 391 pages include Index, with b&w photographs. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 391 pages.
