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'A volume of importance and clout ...The military historian's equivalent of Webster's most comprehensive dictionary and a matching thesaurus . ..It stands without peer as the most authoritative record of one of the nation's most trying experiences' - Maj. Gen. Edward B. Atkeson, \"Army Magazine\". 'Sorley's argument is controversial, but I find it persuasive...To truly understand the Vietnam war, it is absolutely imperative to come to grips with the years after 1968...The edited transcriptions in \"Vietnam Chronicles\" clearly demonstrate that Creighton Abrams and his team possessed a policy and strategy that, but for domestic politics, might have led to an American success in Vietnam' - Mackubin Thomas Owens, \"Weekly Standard\". In \"Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972\", Lewis Sorley catapults the record to a whole new level...An important document that is certain to influence observers seeking to understand America's Vietnam War' - John Prados, \"The VVA Veteran\". 'Hugely engrossing ...An extremely important historical work and a valuable reference for historians, biographers, and others writing about or studying the Vietnam War...A remarkable record' - \"On Point\". 'The Abrams Tapes are extraordinary not for any particular revelation they make about the war. Rather, they present a sort of 'counter history' of the war's later years, wholly distinct from that known to the American public by authors such as David Halberstam and Francis Fitzgerald. Reading through [\"Vietnam Chronicles\"], a different, forgotten vision of the war appears, parallel to that of Halberstam, and incommensurable with it' - www.intellectualconservative.com. 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 U.S. 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' command. The progressive buildup of U.S. 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. 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The battle or the weather never stopped him from going to check the troops. He would go in the rain or snow. If the battle was severe, he would crawl from foxhole to foxhole to talk to his men to let them know he was with them. Words cannot explain the love and pride I had for General Gavin.\"—Walter Woods, World War II aide to General Gavin  Lieutenant General James Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII, is one of the bestknown figures of the war. Beginning as the commander of the 505th Parachute Combat Team that spearheaded the American assault on Sicily in July 1943, Gavin advanced to division command and finally command of US forces in Berlin. Throughout this time he kept a wartime diary that starts in April 1943, as the unit was preparing to go to northern Africa, and continues through to his final entry on 1 September 1945 during the occupation of Berlin.  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