J. Keith Saliba

J. Keith Saliba is the author of Crucible 1972: The War for Peace in Vietnam (2025). Crucible tells the story of America's last fateful year in Vietnam, as Washington and Hanoi waged war to impose an acceptable peace" on the other. Caught in the middle was South Vietnam, forced to fend off its enemy to the north while retaining the support of an increasingly indifferent American ally. As the fate of the fledgling republic hung in the balance, the 1972 machinations of friend and foe alike would determine its fate. Saliba's first book, Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me (2020), won the 2021 Military Writers Society of America's gold medal in history. His work has appeared in Vietnam magazine, On Point: The Journal of Army History, and in the edited volume book series Indochina. Saliba is an associate professor at Jacksonville University and lives in Florida with his family.