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  • NORTH VIETNAM'S 1972 EASTER OFFENSIVE
    STEPHEN EMERSON
    A history of the military campaign that set the stage for the end of the Vietnam War.   By the end of 1971, in what Hanoi called the American War and at the height of the Cold War, the fighting had dragged on for eight years with neither side gaining a decisive advantage on the battlefield and talks in Paris to the end the war were going nowhere. While the United States was ste...

    $229.00

  • VIETNAM'S FINAL AIR CAMPAIGN
    STEPHEN EMERSON
    An account of the last American bombardments that took place over North Vietnam while peace talks struggled in Paris. Includes maps and photos.   On March 30, 1972, some thirty thousand North Vietnamese troops, along with tanks and heavy artillery, surged across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in the opening round of Hanoi's Easter Offensive. By early May, South Vietn...

    $229.00

  • MOZAMBICAN CIVIL WAR
    STEPHEN EMERSON
    How superpower interests and Cold War politics exacerbated a war in Africa that left millions dead or displaced.   As the Cold War raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern Africa, from Angola to Mozambique, became caught up in the superpower competition as local and regional proxies for both Moscow and Washington fought it out on the battlefield. Thus, the struggle to ...

    $229.00

  • THE BATTLE FOR LAOS
    STEPHEN EMERSON
    A history of the "secret war" in Southeast Asia in which nearly three million tons of bombs decimated a newly independent nation.   By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was transforming into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country...

    $229.00

  • AIR WAR OVER NORTH VIETNAM
    STEPHEN EMERSON
    In early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal Americas unwavering commitment to its South Vietnamese ally in the face of continued North Vietnamese aggression, break Hanois political will to prosec...

    $169.00