Reassessing the formative years of the Vietnam War.(BOOKS)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: November 19, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: John M. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Of all America's conflicts, only the Civil War has stimulated as much controversy as our ill-starred effort to preserve a non-Communist government in South Vietnam. And questions remain: Was Ho Chi Minh in fact a nationalist or was he a dedicated communist? Was the Vietnam venture hopeless from the start, or were the people of South Vietnam victims of bungling in Saigon and Washington?

The 18-year war is now the subject of a projected two-volume study by Cambridge University historian Mark Moyar, the first of which is ...

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