Telling the story of war with an artist's touch for the nuances of character--his portrait gallery includes soldiers and diplomats busy at war-making, and above all the Laotians themselves as they realize they have been led down the garden path. Tis book is about secrecy and its illusions, and about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the convenience of large ones. Photos.
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Telling the story of war with an artist's touch for the nuances of character--his portrait gallery includes soldiers and diplomats busy at war-making, and above all the Laotians themselves as they realize they have been led down the garden path. Tis book is about secrecy and its illusions, and about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the convenience of large ones. Photos.
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Add this copy of Shooting at the Moon: the Story of America's to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Adkins Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chattanooga, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Steerforth.
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Good. Item has stickers attached to cover and/or pages that have not been removed to prevent damage. Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.
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Fine. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos-quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch-soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized they had been led down the garden path. This is a book about war, about secrecy, and its illusions, about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the convenience of large ones. Nothing better has been written about the CIA in the years when it thought a handful of Americans in sunglasses could do anything with planeloads of arms and money to burn.
