Vietnam Experience Raising the Stakes, The

Boston: Boston Publishing Company Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. CONTENTS: Chapter 1/Saigon's Year; Chapter 2/Nation Within a Nation; Chapter 3/Into the Long Tunnel; Chapter 4/Season of Fire; Chapter 5/LBJ Takes Charge; Chapter 6/Insurgency-Counterinsurgency; Chapter 7/Covert Action, Hidden War; Chapter 8/Predated Declaration of War; Chapter 9/Enter the U.S. Marines; Names, Acronyms, Terms; PICTURE ESSAYS Choppers; The Soldiers of South Vietnam; The Brutal War; With the Green Berets; The U.S. Marines Land; MAPS Insurgency in the South, 1962; The Topography of South Vietnam; Ap Bac, January 2, 1963; South Vietnam; U.S. Special Forces Deployment; Tonkin Gulf Incident; Thrust-Counterthrust, February 1965. ABOUT THE EDITORS AND AUTHORS: Editor-in-Chief: Robert Manning, a long-time journalist, has previously been editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly magazine and its press. He served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has also been a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Staff Writers: Clark Dougan, a former Watson and Danforth fellow, has taught history at Kenyon College. He received his M.A. and M.Phil. at Yale University. Edward Doyle, an historian, received his masters degree at the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Samuel Lipsman, a former Fulbright Scholar, received his M.A. and M.Phil. in history at Yale. Terrence Maitland has written for several publications, including Newsweek magazine and the Boston Globe. He is a graduate of Holy Cross College and has an M.S. from Boston University. Peter McInerney taught at the University of Pennsylvania and has published articles about literature and film of the Vietnam War. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University. Stephen Weiss has been a fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. An American historian, he received his M.A. and M.Phil. at Yale. Historical Consultant: David P. Chandler, a former U.S. foreign service officer, is research director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His major publications include In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (coauthor) and The Land and People of Cambodia. Vincent H. Demma, an historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, is currently working on the center's history of the Vietnam conflict. Lee Ewing, editor of Army Times, served two years in Vietnam as a combat intelligence officer with the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) and the 101st Airborne Division. An expert on Southeast Asia and a former State Department officer, Paul Kattenburg is a professor of government and international studies at the University of South Carolina. Picture Consultant: Ngo Vinh Long is a social historian specializing in China and Vietnam. Born in Vietnam and living in the United States, he returned there most recently in 1980. He has published several books and many articles on Vietnam. His books include Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French and Report From a Vietnamese Village.. First Edition 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.