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Shooting at the Moon The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos Paperback - 1998

by Roger Warner


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ROGER WARNER is also the author of Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey. He has traveled often in Southeast Asia and now lives on the Massachusetts coast with his wife and two children.

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Unlike the later and larger war in Vietnam, there were never more than a couple thousand Americans in the sleepy Kingdom of Laos.

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  • Title Shooting at the Moon The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
  • Author Roger Warner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st. paperback e
  • Pages 456
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Steerforth, South Royalton, VT
  • Date June 1, 1998
  • ISBN 9781883642365

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"... A terrific book. Much of it reads like a wild, imaginative adventure novel. That the story is true and only now coming fully to light makes it all that much more amazing. It can only add to our understanding of how strong men and their convictions and their daring so often lead to calamity, especially for those who believe in and follow them." -- The Los Angeles Times

"With the publication of Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner emerges as the first significant war historian of the post-Vietnam generation." -- The Nation

"This is a book about the war in the mountains of Laos between 1961 and 1973. It is not the first, but it is certainly the best." -- Journal of Asian Studies

"Better than fiction..." -- Houston Chronicle 

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ROGER WARNER is also the author of Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey. He has traveled often in Southeast Asia and now lives on the Massachusetts coast with his wife and two children.
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