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Andrew Wiest is Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has written or edited several books on the Vietnam War, including Vietnam's Forgotten Army (which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award), Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, and America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation. Dr. Wiest has also served as a visiting professor at both the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and the United States Air Force Air War College.
From the testimony of combat veterans and their families, a military historian assembles a unique oral history of America's most controversial war...No reader can expect to understand America's most vexing war through this book alone, but none can comprehend it fully without factoring in these firsthand accounts. A smartly composed, affecting memory album of the draftees and volunteers whose service and sacrifice for so long went unacknowledged. --Kirkus Reviews<br><br> Wiest has a good feel for the human side of the Vietnam War...[he] asserts that there 'was no single, generic military experience for infantrymen and Marines in Vietnam, ' but he still provides a good sampling of what the war was like for American men fighting at the ground level. --Publishers Weekly
