Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War?

Harper Collins, London, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 338 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. An original military history, Unheralded Victory echoes some themes revisited in NATO's war on Serbia: how what gets reported can be more important than the events on the ground - especially if the frontline is a very dangerous place for a film crew. Unheralded Victory is a revisionist history of the Vietnam war, charting the defeat of the Viet Cong. It investigates why the popular image of the war then, as now, is that propagated by Hanoi's propoganda machine, and why US propaganda was so clumsy. Many myths are debunked: drug use among forces, 'fragging', US morale: the author's account squares with the recollection of actual veterans. He also exposes a number of 'eyewitnesses', some active in the veterans' organizations who were never in Vietnam and whose false testimony has contributed to enduring myth of the 'crazed 'Nam veteran' as portrayed in cinema and TV. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Vietnam; 1970s; History. ISBN: 0004725409. ISBN/EAN: 9780004725406. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8364. . 9780004725406