ROLLING THUNDER IN A GENTLE LAND, The Vietnam War Revisited edited by Andrew Wiest. NEW reprint hardcover, 2010. The Vietnam War was a conflict of myriad complexities: a colonial war and a regional war; a total war and a limited war; a civil war, an insurgency and a conventional war. It was a war in mountains, jungles and open rice paddies. It was a war of high technology and no technology. It was a war of airpower and foot power. It was a helicopter war and a brown-water war. It was a war won on the battlefield and lost on the home front. The greatest American failure in the conflict was a failure to understand context. For too many American planners, the Vietnam War had but one context - the black and white context of the Cold War; a context that begged an inexorable singular military logic and solution, a military solution that was so overly simple that it proved to be no solution at all. This study takes as its main goal to place the Vietnam War into its proper contexts. It does not pretend to answer all of the questions that still surround the conflict, but it does begin to pose new questions that have too often been left unasked or ignored. Suggested list price $32.95

NEW reprint hardcover, unread with pages clean and unmarked. Jacket shows only minor storage scuffing. No tears. Not a remainder. 8" x 10." Maps, color and B&W photos, chronology, glossary, and text. 336 pgs.