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

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Gloria Emerson Frances FitzGerald

Winners & Losers

Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War

Gloria Emerson, Frances FitzGerald

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English

WW Norton & Co
22 August 2014

Asian history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Vietnam War

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.

By: Gloria Emerson
Preface by: Frances FitzGerald
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: reissue
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 484g
ISBN: 9780393349337
ISBN 10: 0393349330
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 22 August 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

Sensitive, moral, compelling ... a book of genuine greatness and largeness of spirit. -- Chicago Tribune Magnificent... [Emerson's] interviews are superb. -- Newsweek A great book ... alternately shrewd, angry, funny, knowing. -- David Halberstam