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“Also in military history and getting good reviews is The Vietnam War by Geoffrey Wawro. Wawro’s argument is that it was not a fear of the domino effect in Asia or geopolitical calculations that led (and kept) America in Vietnam, but domestic politics: successive leaders did not want to appear weak on Communism. This is what made for a complete lack of strategy and half-heartedness in how the US pursued the war .” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Fall 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Other books by Geoffrey Wawro
Our most recommended books
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On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor -
The Art of War
by Sun Zi (also written in English as Sun Tzu) -
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War
by Samuel Eliot Morison
