A Contagion of War: The Vietnam Experience

This book on the Vietnam War deals more with tactics than strategy & attempts to march intimately into battle, portraying what the war was like for those Americans, South Vietnamese, & other allies as well as the Vietcong & North Vietnamese who fought it. It presents a sampling of the battles, pacification efforts, & other activities from the arrival of the first U.S. fighting forces in the spring of 1965 until the end of 1967. Many of these are first-hand accounts. Chapters: Americans in Vietnam; Masher/White Wing; pacification; Saigons forces; the enemy; battlefield Indochina; Vietnam experiences; the border battles. Numerous color & B&W photos & maps