Название: Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam
Автор: Col. William C. Haponski
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612007198
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been many books published on why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The senior American commander in charge of prosecuting the war during its buildup and peak of fighting, Admiral U.S.G. Sharp, concluded his memoir, saying: “The real tragedy of Vietnam is that this war was not won by the other side, by Hanoi or Moscow or Peiping. It was lost in Washington, D. C.” This remains an all too common belief. The stark facts, though, are that the Vietnam War was lost before the first American shot was fired. In fact, it was lost before the first French Expeditionary Corps shot, almost two decades earlier, and was finally lost when the South Vietnamese fought partly, then entirely, on their own.