Andrew Wiest Editor (13 results)

First edition, oversized trade paperback format. Fine condition, as new, appears unread. NOT merely a 'Very Good' copy, since that denotes heavy wear. NOT a dreaded 'Good' or 'Acceptable' copy, since 'Good' is bookseller jargon for 'not so good' and nobody knows what 'Acceptable' means.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Tall 8vo, 336 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. Tall 8vo, 336 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No markings.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour maps. 336 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. HEAVY. 336pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or black boards in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket. Looks at the Vietnam war through the eyes of combatants, civilians, historians, and journalists, reexamining key aspects from new perspectives. Size: 4to.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 397 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First. very nice copy of the first edition. Robert Underwood Johnson [editor]; Clarence Clough Buel [editor] (illustrator).

Hardback. More than thirty years later, the Vietnam War still stands as one of the most controversial events in the history of the United States, and historians have so far failed to come up with a definitive narrative of the wartime experience. With competing viewpoints already in play, Mark Moyar's recent revisionist approach in Triumph Forsaken has created heated debate over who "owns" the history of America's war in Vietnam.Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War collects critiques of Triumph Forsaken from both sides of this debate, written by an array of Vietnam scholars, cataloguing arguments about how the war should be remembered, how history may be reconstructed, and by whom. A lively introduction and conclusion by editors Andrew Wiest and Michael Doidge provide context and balance to the essays, as well as Moyar's responses, giving students and scholars of the Vietnam era a glimpse into how history is constructed and reconstructed. 2010, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a small dent in the bottom board. Scans available if required.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 336 pages. Oversized book, measuring 9-3/4 inches by 7-3/4 inches. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some with color). Includes Contributors; Chronology; Introduction; The French Indochina War; Fight for the Long Haul; The Road South; The War outside Vietnam; A View from the Other Side of the Story; Caught in the Crossfire; Diggers and Kiwis; The Conduct of the war; On the Ground; "Swatting Flies with a Sledgehammer"; Battle for the Mekong; Tactics in a Different War; The "Living-Room War"; and The Final Act--And After. Includes Endnotes, Bibliography, Glossary, and Index. Contributions include critical assessments of strategy and tactics by both NVA and ARVN officers, an account of the war's effect on civilians, and discussions of wider issues, including the war with Cambodia and Laos and the strategy of the U.S. forces. The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams that evocatively complement the text. Among the many contributors were Lewis Sorley and John Prados. Dr. Andrew Wiest received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, in 1990. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, Dr. Wiest has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 Dr. Wiest has been active in international education, leading a study abroad program on World War II to London and Normandy each summer, and developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program. Chapter headings: An American war? The French experience. The North Vietnamese experience. The Ho Chi Minh Trail. The war outside Vietnam: Cambodia and Laos. The South Vietnamese experience. The civilian experience. Vietnam ANZACs. US doctrinal critique. The US experience. The river war. The air war. Vietnam tactics. Vietnam in the media. The legacy of war. From the Introduction: In the end, then, the Vietnam War was a conflict of myriad complexities. It was a colonial war and a regional war. It was a total war and a limited war. It was a civil war, an insurgency and a conventional war - and indeed it varied from one form to another at different times and in different places. It was a war in mountains, jungles or open rice paddies depending on the location of the battlefield. It was a war of high technology and no technology. It was a war of airpower and a war of footpower. It was a helicopter war and a brown-water war. It was a war won on the battlefield and lost on the homefront. One thing that the Vietnam War was not was simply an American War. It was a war of varying and mutable contexts - a chameleon of constant change. The greatest American failure in the conflict was a failure to understand context. For far too many important American planners the Vietnam War had but one context - the black and white context of the Cold War; a context that begged an inexorable singular military logic and solution. A military solution that was so overly simple that it proved to be no solution at all.The present study takes as its main goal to place the Vietnam War into its proper contexts. Though Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land cannot pretend to answer all of the nagging questions that still surround the conflict, it can at least begin to pose new questions that have too often been left unasked or ignored. Through the work of a unique collection of historians, journalists, and war participants Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land also seeks to spark historical debate and research by searching for new contextual answers to questions that many historians had thought long since answered - sometimes calling for a needed revision of the historical orthodoxy of the conflict. Thus the present study proposes to take fresh looks at several of the most important aspects of the Vietnam War and hopes to demonstrate that the field remains one of the most vibrant and important fields availabl. Giles Caron (Front Cover image) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 336 pp. 4to. Contains photos and maps throughout, most in color. Dust jacket blurb from Tim O'Brien.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 397 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.