The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam [NOOK Book]

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It's 1964, and free-lance writer Dan Ford has just received a publisher's advance on his first book. He spends the money on a ticket to Saigon. Here is the war as he saw it during three months at large in South Vietnam, including the mission that became his novel "Incident at Muc Wa" and the acclaimed Burt Lancaster film "Go Tell the Spartans."
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The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam

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Overview

It's 1964, and free-lance writer Dan Ford has just received a publisher's advance on his first book. He spends the money on a ticket to Saigon. Here is the war as he saw it during three months at large in South Vietnam, including the mission that became his novel "Incident at Muc Wa" and the acclaimed Burt Lancaster film "Go Tell the Spartans."
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Annals of Vietnam - unnamed reviewer
"A riveting account of the Vietnam War in its openings round. Recommended to students, veterans, and historians."
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013509634
  • Publisher: Warbird Books
  • Publication date: 12/22/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 216,757
  • File size: 462 KB

Meet the Author

Daniel Ford has spent a lifetime reading and writing about the wars of the past hundred years, from the Irish rebellion of 1916 to the counter-guerrilla operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is best known for his history of the American Volunteer Group--the 'Flying Tigers' of the Second World War--and his Vietnam novel that was filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, starring Burt Lancaster. Most recently, he has turned to the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Germany and Soviet Russia. Most of his books and many shorter pieces are available in digital editions. He lives and works in New Hampshire.
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  • Posted September 3, 2011

    Early days in South Vietnam

    This is the journal I kept in Vietnam during the spring and summer of 1964, a few months before President Johnson committed American ground troops to the conflict and thereby changed it out of all recognition. I traveled with helicopter crews, advisory teams, Green Berets, and Navy Seals, all of them doing a masterful job. In my opinion, the war would have turned out better if Mr. Johnson had left it at that. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

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