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“The plan called for attacks leading up to Tet against American bases throughout the South—Khe Sanh, Da Nang, Con Tien, Pleiku, and others. It…

— Mark Bowden

“Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign…

— Helene Hanff

“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was…

— Joseph M. Puglia

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland

“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively…

— Michael B. Oren

“Mohr quoted Westmoreland, after the general had toured the bullet-riddled embassy grounds in Saigon, saying the enemy’s efforts had failed, and that they had…

— Mark Bowden

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson

“Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from…

— Susan O'Neill

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None…

— Jonathan Schell

“Like any army moving from war to peace, this Army was entering a period in which it would search high and low for its…

— Rick Atkinson