Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow From The Home Front to the Front Lines in Words and Pictures

516 Pages·1985·67.759 MB·English

by  Thomas D. Boettcher

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Little, Brown and Company
Boston-Toronto
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Acknowledgments
This book which I was privileged to write
benefited from the efforts ofmanypeople.
Beth Rashbaum, my editor, provided expert
guidance and effort in my behalf, as did copy
editorMike Mattil. Beth's assistants, Debra
Roth and Skye Gibson, and Claude Lee and
Jeannie Abboud from the production depart-
ment, helped make the process ofcreating
this book both possible and pleasant. Phil
Jordan designed and thereby enhanced these
pages. Ronnie Harlowe, Clarence Harlowe and
Joe Vicino supervised the typesetting. At the
beginning, Larry Ashmead liked my ideaand
introduced me to my agent, Don Cleary, who
ably represented meand found adistinguished
publisher. My wife Pam was patiently support-
ive during the entire process. I also wantto
thank my brotherFred.
Furthermore, Iwish to acknowledge the
work ofotherauthors, especially thatofDavid
Halberstam, Joseph Buttinger, Godfrey Hodg-
son, James Aronson and Bernard Fall. I hope
that in the same way my work will be of
benefit to otherwriters'examination ofthis
importantperiod ofourhistory.