Tell It to The Dead: Memories Of a War
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #007298
Full black cloth. B&W pictorial endpapers. xiv, 215 pp. Dust jacket is rubbed to extremities, small chip to head of rear cover, else fine. The defeat of American interests and aims in Indochina was forecast long before it happened - not by the diplomats and the generals but by the men who were fighting the war. Donald Kirk, with American GIs in the jungles of Vietnam from the time of their arrival, traced over the years, the evolving attitudes, the sense of imminent disaster, that ultimately cast its pall over the American effort. We see here the specter of eager young men arriving to "stop Communism" in the summer of 1965 and then going home, nearly a decade later, convinced that they and their nation had failed them.
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