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Vietnam Chronicles - The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972 (Paperback)
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Vietnam Chronicles - The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972 (Paperback)
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During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in
Vietnam, he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of
briefings and meetings. In 1994, with government approval, Lewis
Sorley began transcribing and analyzing the tapes. Sorley's
laborious, time-consuming effort has produced a picture of the
senior US commander in Vietnam and his associates working to
prosecute a complex and challenging military campaign in an equally
complex and difficult political context. The concept of the nature
of the war and the way it was conducted changed during Abrams's
command. The progressive buildup of US forces was reversed, and
Abrams became responsible for turning the war back to the South
Vietnamese. The edited transcriptions in this volume clearly
reflect those changes in policy and strategy. They include
briefings called the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Updates as well
as meetings with such visitors as the secretary of defense, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other high-ranking
officials. The 2005 winner of the Army Historical Foundation's
Trefry Award, Vietnam Chronicles reveals, for the first time, the
difficult task that Creighton Abrams accomplished with tact and
skill.
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