Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975

A. J. Langguth

Nov 2000 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction

Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.

Ratings and reviews

than this error suggests: he calls the Ian Fleming book "To Russia With Love." How this mistake could be made by a careful researcher and by any decent editor is beyond me. For those out of the loop, the novel and movie are titled "From Russia With Love." The title mentioned is that of a different book by a different author. My VN go-to is "Kill Anything That Moves," by Nick Turse.

I found this one of the most comprehensive books about the Vietnam War.....

About the author

A. J. Langguth (1933–2014) was the author of eight books of nonfiction and three novels. After Lincoln marks his fourth book in a series that began in 1988 with Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. He served as a Saigon bureau chief for the New York Times, after covering the Civil Rights movement for the newspaper. Langguth taught for three decades at the University of Southern California and retired in 2003 as emeritus professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.