Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War

by Gloria Emerson, Frances FitzGerald (Preface by)

Overview

The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary.

Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied American power, and its poignant truths are the legacy of a remarkable journalist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393349337
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/21/2014
Edition description:	reissue
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	531,618
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Gloria Emerson (1929–2004) covered Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times from 1965 to 1972, for which she won the George Polk Award. Winners and Losers won the National Book Award in 1978.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Foreword xvii

I Endings: One Kind or Another 3

II Families: Together and Not Together 85

III Small Places 187

IV Odd Things Not Yet Forgotten 263

V Experts 369

VI Winners and Losers 463

Notes 523

Credits 546

Index 547

Editorial Reviews

"Magnificent. . . . [Emerson’s] interviews are superb."

Newsweek

"A great book . . . alternately shrewd, angry, funny, knowing."

David Halberstam

"Sensitive, moral, compelling . . . a book of genuine greatness and largeness of spirit."

Chicago Tribune