Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War

by Matthew M. Stith and Geoffrey W. Jensen

In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War.
Americans believed that they were supposed to win in Vietnam. As veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo observed in A Rumor of War, "we carried, along with our packs and rifles, the implicit convictions that the Viet Cong would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574417487
• ISBN13: 9781574417487
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"