Volume 37, Number 13 · August 16, 1990
The War That Will Not End
By Jonathan Mirsky
Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam
by Morley Safer
Random House, 206 pp., $18.95
Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam
by William Colby, by James McCarger
Contemporary Books, 438 pp., $22.95
Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
by Orrin DeForest, by David Chanoff
Simon and Schuster, 294 pp., $18.95
The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
by Mark Clodfelter
Free Press, 297 pp., $22.95
As I Saw It
by Dean Rusk as told to Richard Rusk, edited by Daniel S. Papp
Norton, 672 pp., $29.95
Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Last Days of the Fall of Vietnam
by Larry Engelmann
Oxford University Press, 408 pp., $22.95
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
by James M. Freeman
Stanford University Press, 446 pp., $29.50
Vietnam: 'Renovation' (Doi Moi), The Law and Human Rights in the 1980s
Amnesty International
66 pp., $5.00
In Saigon in 1965 I told Walter Cronkite, who was not yet known for having doubts about the war, that I had met a woman, a maid working for Americans in Saigon, who had visited her village, and found that it had just been bombed and bulldozed, and no longer existed. Her entire family had vanished. Cronkite gave me his professional opinion of her story: 'Listen, these people are going to have to learn that you can't fight a war without being hurt.'
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