Thomas D. Boettcher

4055 Vietnam The Valor and the Sorrow From the home front to the front lines in words and pictures, by Thomas D. Boettcher (read 8 Aug 2005) This is a 1985 book by an Air Force Academy graduate who served in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He covers the whole subject from the 1940s to 1975, and the book has been described as the best popular history yet published on 20th century Vietnam and its fatal allure for France and the US. It has no footnotes and its source notes are in such tiny print as to be almost unreadable. The book is pretty balanced, though definitely dovish. A good book on a subject endlessly fascinating.… (meer)