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Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels

A Secular Reading

By: Geoffrey Rans

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Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels

A Secular Reading

By: Geoffrey Rans

James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them. Rans analyzes each of the five novels (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer) in the order in which they were originally composed, an achronological sequence in terms of the stories they tell. As events in early written novels interact with those in later ones, the reader is compelled to construct political meanings different from Cooper's ideological preferences. This approach effectively precludes reading these works as Natty Bumppo's life story, or as an aspect of Cooper's. Rans presents the series as a text that faithfully reproduces the conflicts Cooper faced, both at the time when he wrote the novels and in the history that the novels contemplate. Cooper emerges as a composer of richly problematical texts for which no aesthetic resolution is possible and in which every idealization, political or poetic, is relentlessly subjected to the gaze of historical reality. The tension between potential and practice, which is apparent in the final two volumes of the tales, is present, Rans contends, from the inception of the series. Because the problems of racism and greed that Cooper addresses remained as unresolved for us as for him, Rans concludes that this reading of the Leather-Stocking tales reinforces both Cooper's central canonical position and his value as an articulator of political conflict. Originally published in 1991. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807863998

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9780807863992

Supermarket Wars

Global Strategies for Food Retailers

By: A. Seth,Geoffrey Randall

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Supermarket Wars

Global Strategies for Food Retailers

By: A. Seth,Geoffrey Randall

Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale. This book describes the current state of play, looking in detail at the main competitors worldwide and analyzing the factors underlying their successes and failures. The authors are leading commentators on this industry and identify the essential characteristics of a global strategy in food retailing and include many compelling examples.

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Springer

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0230513425

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Love Me Tonight

By: Geoffrey Holden Block,Distinguished Professor of Music History and Humanities Emeritus Geoffrey Block

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Love Me Tonight

By: Geoffrey Holden Block,Distinguished Professor of Music History and Humanities Emeritus Geoffrey Block

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to the remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932) from a accessible musicological perspective, giving readers of all stripes new ways to hear this classic film.

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Oxford University Press

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0197566197

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9780197566190

The Grocers

The Rise and Rise of the Supermarket Chains

By: Andrew Seth,Geoffrey Randall

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The Grocers

The Rise and Rise of the Supermarket Chains

By: Andrew Seth,Geoffrey Randall

Over the last 20 years, retailing has become one of the most dynamic industry sectors and the supermarket chains in particular have become the focus of regular headline news. The history of retailing, though, goes back much further.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749435496

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9780749435493

The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659

The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars

By: Geoffrey Parker

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The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659

The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars

By: Geoffrey Parker

Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521543924

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9780521543927

Telecommunications Engineering, 3rd Edition

By: John Dunlop,D. Geoffrey Smith

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Telecommunications Engineering, 3rd Edition

By: John Dunlop,D. Geoffrey Smith

Since the publication of the second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, telecommunications has progressed at a rapid rate. Major advances continue to occur in mobile communications and broadband digital networks and services, sophisticated signal processing techniques are prevalent at increasingly higher bit rates, and digital systems are widespread. These developments need to be addressed in a textbook that bridges the gap in the current knowledge and teachings of telecommunications engineering. Telecommunications Engineering, 3rd Edition offers an introduction to the major telecommunications topics by combining an analytical approach to important concepts with a descriptive account of systems design. Completely updated and expanded, this third edition includes substantial material on integrated services digital networks, mobile communications systems, metropolitan area networks, and more. What's New in the 3rd Edition New chapter on mobile communications covering first generation analog and second generation digital systems Expanded chapter on non-linear coding of voice waveforms for PCM New section on NICAM Updated chapter on the transient performance of the phase locked loop Revised chapter on recent major developments in satellite television New introduction to coding techniques for burst errors Extended chapter on ISDN and broadband digital communications Supplemented with worked problems, numerous illustrations, and extensive references to more advanced material, this textbook provides a solid foundation for undergraduate students of electrical, electronic, and telecommunications engineering.

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CRC Press

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0748740449

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9780748740444

Doxology: A Systematic Theology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

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Doxology: A Systematic Theology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

Described by the author as " A systematic theology from a liturgical perspective" or "a theology of worship

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Oxford University Press

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0195204336

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9780195204339

The Recording Industry

By: Geoffrey P. Hull

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The Recording Industry

By: Geoffrey P. Hull

The Music Business and Recording Industry is a comprehensive music business textbook focused on the three income streams in the music industry: music publishing, live entertainment, and recordings. The book provides a sound foundation for understanding key issues, while presenting the latest research in the field. It covers the changes in the industry brought about by the digital age, such as changing methods of distributing and accessing music and new approaches in marketing with the Internet and mobile applications. New developments in copyright law are also examined, along with the global and regional differences in the music business.

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Psychology Press

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041596802X

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9780415968027

Division of Labor in Cells

By: Geoffrey H. Bourne

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Division of Labor in Cells

By: Geoffrey H. Bourne

Division of Labor in Cells, Second Edition focuses on cytological techniques used in studies related to the complexities of cell structure and function. The publication first elaborates on the structure of cell membrane and cytoplasm, including the endoplasmic reticulum, nature of microsomes, differential centrifugation, and permeability of cell membranes. The book then takes a look at the mitochondria and Golgi apparatus. Topics include metabolic substances found in the mitochondria, plant cells, protein and fat metabolism, lysosomes, metabolism of carbohydrates, plastids and chloroplasts, and chemical nature of the mitochondria. The manuscript elaborates on gland cells, muscle fibers, and nerve fibers and the nucleus and nucleic acids. Discussions focus on the striated muscle fiber, nucleocytoplasmic relationships, nucleic acids of the nucleus, DNA, RNA, and genes, chromosomes, and spindle fibers. The publication is a vital reference for researchers interested in cell structure and function.

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309

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Academic Press

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1483268446

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9781483268446

Voices from Early China

The Odes Demystified

By: Geoffrey Sampson

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Voices from Early China

The Odes Demystified

By: Geoffrey Sampson

The Chinese “Book of Odes” (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus, is one of the earliest literary works in any living language. It offers vignettes of life in an almost unimaginably remote society; many of the poems have great charm, for instance, some are authored by women about their love problems. (For such early literature it is remarkable how many poems are by women.) Over the centuries the content of the Odes has become obscured by developments in the Chinese language, by prudishness and pomposity on the part of commentators, and because earlier translators were often more interested in philological technicalities than in the poems’ human significance. This book cuts through these obscurities to present a new translation into straightforward, down-to-earth English. The Odes are the earliest rhyming poetry in any language, and they make use of alliteration and assonance to achieve their poetic effects, but changes in the sounds of modern Chinese have destroyed all this speech-music. This book restores it: alongside the author’s translations, it spells the Chinese wording out in the sounds used by the original poets—something which has only recently become possible through advances in the reconstruction of Old Chinese speech.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527555224

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9781527555228

Without Precedent

Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

By: Geoffrey Kirk

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Without Precedent

Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women

By: Geoffrey Kirk

Though the ordination of women has been hotly debated in a number of churches (and in particular in the world-wide Anglican Communion) there has been a strange silence on the subject from academic theologians. "They have left the debate," says the author of this book, "for the most part, to the also-rans." Without Precedent seeks to examine the arguments that, in the absence of serious academic contributions, have been advanced. In particular it looks at claims of ancient precedent for modern practice. What did Jesus think about women? Was Paul a misogynist or a feminist, a reactionary or a revolutionary? Does the role of Mary of Magdela, in scripture and tradition, offer any guidance (as many have claimed)? Were there female priests, and even bishops, in early Christianity? Extravagant claims have been made and repeated in all of these areas, and have crucially influenced decisions taken. This book provides, in the words of former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams: "a lucid and helpful survey, which quite rightly punctures some awful historical nonsense.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498230822

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9781498230827

Mill's 'On Liberty'

A Reader's Guide

By: Geoffrey Scarre

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Mill's 'On Liberty'

A Reader's Guide

By: Geoffrey Scarre

A Reader's Guide to a Classic of Moral and Pollical Philosophy

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A&C Black

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0826486487

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9780826486486

Green and Software-defined Wireless Networks

From Theory to Practice

By: Chih-Lin I,Guanding Yu,Shuangfeng Han,Geoffrey Ye Li

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Green and Software-defined Wireless Networks

From Theory to Practice

By: Chih-Lin I,Guanding Yu,Shuangfeng Han,Geoffrey Ye Li

An expert treatment of the state-of-the-art in green and soft communications, covering theory, design, and resource management strategies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108417329

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9781108417327

Green and Gray

By: Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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Green and Gray

By: Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s second collection documents the "remorse of the senses" that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice and distraction secure every sensual event. Attempting to reestablish experience as something other than complicity, these poems insist on "desiring that which is as if it were not," making poetry out of neighborhood flyers, the Patriot Act, and the poverty of presidential speech. Given this mandate to stay within limited resources, Green and Gray makes a virtue of refusing to abandon them, often relying on an emphatic recirculation of words and phrases to generate its own system complexities. These are poems whose materials remember their former use: the gray of the city and the green it used to be.

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Univ of California Press

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0520940431

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9780520940437

Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History

By: Geoffrey Sloan

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Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History

By: Geoffrey Sloan

This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history. This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How do these changes occur? Over what period of time do these changes occur? The theories of Sir Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman are examined in order to provide an analytical narrative for five case studies, four historical and one contemporary. Taken together they offer the prospect of converting descriptions of historical change into analytic explanations, thereby highlighting the importance of a number of commonly overlooked variables. In addition, the case studies will illuminate the challenges that states face when attempting to change the scope of their foreign policy and geo-strategy in response to shifts in the geopolitical reality. This book breaks new ground in seeking to provide a way to understand why and how the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy both expands and contracts. This book will be of much interest to students of geopolitics, strategic studies, military history, and international relations.

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428

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Routledge

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1135773300

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9781135773304

Baseball

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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Baseball

An Illustrated History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

With more than 500 photographs -- Introduction by Roger Angell -- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will -- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil

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Knopf

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0679765417

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9780679765417

Globalization and Sport

Playing the World

By: Toby Miller,Geoffrey A Lawrence,Jim McKay,David Rowe

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Globalization and Sport

Playing the World

By: Toby Miller,Geoffrey A Lawrence,Jim McKay,David Rowe

Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of physical education in the public sector, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations. In addition, sport is examined as a principal front of globalization. The sports process draws together dispersed communities and generates economic wealth. The book demonstrates how commodification, bureaucratization and ideology are fundamental to the organization of sporting cultures.

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SAGE

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1446265013

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9781446265017

American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521434696

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9780521434690

The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855

By: Geoffrey Turner

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The British Museum’s Excavations at Nineveh, 1846–1855

By: Geoffrey Turner

Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.

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BRILL

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9004435379

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9789004435377

Connecticut Wildlife

Biodiversity, Natural History, and Conservation

By: Geoffrey A. Hammerson

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Connecticut Wildlife

Biodiversity, Natural History, and Conservation

By: Geoffrey A. Hammerson

The best comprehensive look at wildlife in Connecticut

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UPNE

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1584653698

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9781584653691

The Richard Rodgers Reader

By: Geoffrey Block

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The Richard Rodgers Reader

By: Geoffrey Block

Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and the musicals he wrote with his second collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein--Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music--continue to enchant and entertain audiences. Arranged in four sections, Rodgers and Hart (1929-1943), Rodgers and Hammerstein (1943-1960), Rodgers After Hammerstein (1960-1979), and The Composer Speaks (1939-1971), The Richard Rodgers Reader offers a cornucopia of informative, perceptive, and stylish biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy in the 1920s, the 1938 Time magazine cover story and New Yorker profiles in 1938 and 1961, and essays and reviews by such noted critics as Brooks Atkinson, Eric Bentley, Leonard Bernstein, Lehman Engel, Walter Kerr, Ken Mandelbaum, Ethan Mordden, George Jean Nathan, and Alec Wilder. The volume features personal accounts by Richard Adler, Agnes de Mille, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, and Diahann Carroll. The collection concludes with complete selections from more than thirty years of Rodgers's own writings on topics ranging from the creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, even Rodgers's bout with cancer, and a generous sample from the candid and previously unpublished Columbia University interviews. For anyone wishing to explore more fully the life and work of a composer whose songs and musicals have assumed a permanent--and prominent--place in American popular culture, The Richard Rodgers Reader will offer endless delights.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195313437

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9780195313437

The Vietnam War

A Military History

By: Geoffrey Wawro

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The Vietnam War

A Military History

By: Geoffrey Wawro

The first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war. Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro’s The Vietnam War offers a definitive account of a war of choice that was doomed from its inception. In devastating detail, Wawro narrates campaigns where US troops struggled even to find the enemy in the South Vietnamese wilderness, let alone kill sufficient numbers to turn the tide in their favor. Yet the war dragged on, prolonged by presidents and military leaders who feared the political consequences of accepting defeat. In the end, no number of young lives lost or bombs dropped could prevent America’s ally, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime, from collapsing the moment US troops retreated. Broad, definitive, and illuminating, The Vietnam War offers an unsettling, resonant story of the limitations of American power.

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Basic Books

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1541606094

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9781541606098

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