Vietnam Chronicles - The Abrams Tapes 1968-1972

Informationen zum Autor Lewis Sorley is a researcher and writer in Potomac, Maryland. His previous books include Thunderbolt: General Creighton Adams and the Army of His Times , Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command , and A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam . Klappentext During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in Vietnam! he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of briefings and meetings. In 1994 Lewis Sorley began transcribing and analysing the tapes. Sorley has produced a picture of the senior US commander in Vietnam and his associates working to prosecute a complex and challenging military campaign in an equally complex and difficult political context.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Sorley
• Assisted by: Lewis Sorley (Editor)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780896729599
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-959-9
• No. of pages: 992
• Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series; Modern Southeast Asia; Modern Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous