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Article: Willbanks, James H.: Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War.(Book Review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- January 1, 2005
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Willbanks, James H. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 384 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1331-5 Publication Date: June 2004
Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War has a somewhat misleading title. The implication is that because the United States left, South Vietnam was defeated. In this book, James H. Willbanks focuses on 1968-75 in the Vietnam conflict. What emerges in this study is clearly a military history, with detailed descriptions of battles fought during the last years of the war. There is, however, very little new information to help readers better understand why ...