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The End of the Line: The Siege of Khe Sanh Pisor, Robert

A war correspondents searching account of a crucial battle in the Vietnam War It was the most spectacular battle of the entire war For 6,000 trapped marines, it was a nightmare; for President Lyndon Johnson, an obsession For General Westmoreland, it was to be the final vindication of technological weaponry; and for General Giap, the architect of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, it was a spectacular ruse masking troops moving south for the Tet offensive In a compelling narrative, Robert Pisor sets forth the history, the politics, the strategies, and, above all, the desperate reality of the battle that became the turning point of the United Statess involvement in Vietnam