America In Vietnam: The Fifteen Year War

by John F. Guilmartin Jr.

Puts the role of the United States in the Vietnam war in the context of Vietnam's history, and follows American participation from the first advisers to the fall of Saigon

208 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1991

About the author

A specialist in the history of early modern Europe, John Francis Guilmartin was professor of history at the Ohio State University, where he taught from 1987 until his death. He earned his BS degree in aerospace engineering at the United States Air Force Academy and an MA (1969) and PhD (1971) in history at Princeton University. An officer in the United States Air Force, Guilmartin served on the faculty of the History Department at the Air Force Academy from 1970-74 and was later the editor of the Air University Review at the Air University in Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. After his retirement from the Air Force, he served on the faculties of the Naval War College and at Rice University where he also directed the space shuttle history project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Reviews

[Ernesto Mora · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good book but I was kind of zoning out through some of the book because it got boring. The pictures were cool though and I thought being in chronological order was good because i knew where I was at throughout the war, but overall it was an “ok” book.