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Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note to the Reader

List of Acronyms

April 1971: Veterans at War

1. A Splendid Little War

March–July 1954: Dien Bien Phu, Geneva, and the Harnessing of American Power

2. Many Roads to Quagmire (1954–1960)

3. Loose the Fateful Lightning (1961–1964)

August 1964: The Last Mystery of the Tonkin Gulf

4. Burnished Rows of Steel (1964–1965)

5. A Hundred Circling Camps (1965–1967)

6. Trampling Out the Vintage (1967)

January–May 1968: Tet Mau Than

7. Terrible Swift Sword (1968–1969)

8. Crush the Serpent under Heel (1969)

9. Dim and Flaring Lamps (1969–1971)

10. Die to Make Men Free (1970)

11. Sound Forth the Trumpet (1971)

12. Evening Dews and Damps (1971–1972)

13. Sifting Out the Hearts of Men (1972)

14. The Truth Comes Marching Home

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index

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