A Better War

Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 are filled with surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing on authoritative materials not previously available, including hundreds of hours of tape-recorded allied councils of war, military historian Lewis Sorley has given us what has long been needed - an insightful, factual, and documented history of these important years. Sorley demonstrates that dramatic changes occurred in nearly every aspect of the U.S. approach to the war. General Creighton Abrams…