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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of
America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to
the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good
Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945
through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the
initial advisory missions that followed, it traces the story of
America's involvement in the Vietnam War from the first Marines
landing at Da Nang in 1965, through the traumatic Tet Offensive of
1968 and the gradual Vietnamisation of the war that followed, to
the withdrawal of American forces and the final loss of the South
in 1975. Drawing on the latest research, unavailable to the authors
of the classic Vietnam histories, including recently declassified
top secret National Security Agency material, Sergio Miller
examines in depth both the events and the key figures of the
conflict to present a masterful narrative of America's most
divisive war.
The M551 Sheridan is often referred to as a light tank, but in
actuality it was an armored reconnaissance/airborne assault
vehicle. The M551 was designed to be a lightweight, amphibious,
air-droppable vehicle armed with a massive 152 mm gun that doubled
as a rocket launcher. The gun launcher was designed to fire the
MGM-51 Shillelagh antitank missile, or 152 mm conventional rounds
with a combustible cartridge case. The vehicles saw extensive use
in Vietnam, Operation Just Cause in Panama (where they saw their
only combat air drop), and Operations Desert Shield and Desert
Storm. The Sheridan ended its service with the US Army masquerading
as Soviet Bloc vehicles at the National Training Center. Through
dozens of archival as well as detailed photographs of some of the
finest extant examples of these vehicles, the Sheridan is explored,
and its history explained. Part of the Legends of Warfare series.
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