To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969–1970 9781476623689, 1476623686

American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally—as few American soldiers could. In addi

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To Vietnam in Vain: Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969–1970
9781476623689, 1476623686

In vibrant, engaging prose, this memoir from inside the belly of US intelligence operations reveals what fundamentally w

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The Vietnam War was not going well in 1968. The January Tet Offensive--a tactical defeat but strategic victory for North

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After he left the CIA in 1973, Adams sat down to write an account of his years in the agency. Adams loved intelligence w

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The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of

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The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of

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Bob Kunkel grew up in a large, Catholic family on a dairy farm in central Minnesota. Although he was older than some dra

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Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ra

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When she was 18, Barbara Hesselman joined the Army to finance her nursing education. A little more than four years later

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