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\nTriumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965<\/em>
\nCambridge University Press, October 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

“a stunning performance”<\/strong>
\n\u2013 James M. Murphy,\u00a0The Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“one of the most important books ever written on the Vietnam War”<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Mackubin Thomas Owens,\u00a0The Weekly Standard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“groundbreaking”
\n\u2013 Evan Thomas and John Barry,\u00a0Newsweek<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“a brilliant analysis”<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Lewis Sorley,\u00a0Joint Force Quarterly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“akin to reading Euripides’ tales of self-inflicted woe and missed chances”
\n\u2013 Victor Davis Hanson,\u00a0City Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“definitive”<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Guenter Lewy,\u00a0New York\u00a0Sun<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“a bold, courageous, and brilliant book”
\n\u2013 Christina Goulter,\u00a0Asian Affairs<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“a landmark contribution”
\n\u2013 Robert F. Turner,\u00a0Historically Speaking<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Moyar makes so many striking contrarian arguments that one hardly knows where to begin…. This is an important book, a history that serves as a mirror on the present.”
\n\u2013 Robert H. Scales,\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“thought provoking, exhaustively researched, highly organized, and above all, outstanding.”
\n\u2013 Rick Baillergeon,\u00a0History<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Moyar, who has strong credentials, has an engaging writing style and supports his arguments with dispassionate research, unlike many earlier revisionists’ works… Highly recommended.”
\n\u2013 Michael O’Donnell,\u00a0Choice<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Thoroughly researched and richly informative.”
\n\u2013 George Cohen,\u00a0Booklist<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe author is an immensely talented academic and writer… Moyar marshals the fruits of his research into a devastating attack on the conventional wisdom about the Vietnam War.\u201d
\n\u2013 James C. Roberts,\u00a0Human Events<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“[a] definitive examination… It is essential reading for anyone wanting a fresh understanding of one of America’s longest and most misunderstood conflicts.”
\n\u2013 Charles Melson,\u00a0Marine Corps Gazette<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Impressive and scrupulously researched… elevates the arguments of Vietnam War revisionists to a higher, more respected, level.”
\n\u2013 Karl Helicher,\u00a0ForeWord Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“the sheer scholarship behind Moyar’s book demands that we take his views seriously.”
\n\u2013 Ian Horwood,\u00a0Reviews in History<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Moyar is a fine writer and switches from broad strategic and geopolitical issues to heart-gripping accounts of key military actions….\u00a0Triumph Forsaken\u00a0<\/em>will go a long way toward vindicating and restoring respect for Vietnam vets and those who supported the war, often at great personal cost.”
\n\u2013\u00a0Robert A. Hall,\u00a0Leatherneck<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Better late than never.”
\n\u2013 Stuart Herrington,\u00a0Parameters<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“will prove to be the indispensable history of the Vietnam War.”
\n\u2013 Scott W. Johnson,\u00a0Power Line<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“throws down a mighty challenge to orthodox historians”
\n\u2013 Paul Beston,\u00a0The American Spectator<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The book is meticulously documented; it draws on the substantial U.S. documentary record of the war, bringing fresh perspectives to familiar evidence. Moyar augments and supports his analysis with extensive use of North Vietnamese archival material, most of which was unavailable to the orthodox historians of the 1970s and \u201980s. In sum,\u00a0Triumph Forsaken<\/em>\u00a0is an important book.”
\n\u2013 James S. Robbins,\u00a0National Review<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Extensively researched from communist as well as Western sources… gripping.”
\n\u2013 John M. Taylor,\u00a0Washington\u00a0Times<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is revisionist history at its best.”
\n\u2013 Christian Nelson,\u00a0VietNow<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Moyar is refreshingly frank in his appraisals.”
\n\u2013 Curtis Hooper O’Sullivan,\u00a0Air Power History<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America\u2019s involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that of-tmisunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.\u201d
\n\u2013 Senator James Webb, Marine combat veteran, author of\u00a0Fields of Fire<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Born Fighting<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMark Moyar has produced the best \u2018revisionist\u2019 study to date of the U.S.intervention in Vietnam. Engagingly written and broadly researched, this book establishes Moyar as the leading voice of a new generation of historians intent on challenging conventional wisdom.\u201d
\n\u2013 William Stueck, author of\u00a0Rethinking the Korean War<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMark Moyar tells how and why the United States did not win its first war in Vietnam, 1954\u20131965. Triumph Forsaken replaces its predecessors because it shows how the counterinsurgency campaign might have been won at acceptable cost, thus avoiding \u2018the big war\u2019 that followed.\u201d
\n\u2013 Allan R. Millett, Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNumerous bits of conventional wisdom have accreted around the Vietnam War. It is commonly held that Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese nationalist above all, not a true communist, and that his victory was inevitable. That Ngo Dinh Diem was an unpopular and repressive reactionary. That the United States had no vital strategic interest in defending South Vietnam. That the \u2018domino theory\u2019 was a myth. That the U.S. was right not to invade North Vietnam or Laos for fear of triggering Chinese intervention. Mark Moyar, a young, bold, and iconoclastic historian, takes a sledge hammer to these hoary beliefs. It is \u2018revisionist\u2019 in the best sense of the word.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Max Boot, author of\u00a0The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMark Moyar provides detailed accounts of Saigon politics and of actual battles that are unmatched in any other study. He gives particular emphasis to southern Vietnamese views and experiences, and he encourages us to think about the war in fresh ways.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2013 K.W. Taylor, Cornell University<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTriumph Forsaken is a remarkable book. Moyar\u2019s work is the most powerful challenge to the orthodox interpretation of the origins of America\u2019s war in Vietnam. In taking a fresh look at the primary sources, as well as exploiting new materials from the American and communist archives, Moyar has constructed an alternative explanation for the roots of the American commitment. Moyar\u2019s book compels historians to reopen the debate about the meaning of the Vietnam War.\u201d
\n\u2013 Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Such is the quality of this book and the rewriting of history it effects that you will not only see the Vietnam War in a different light but understand current events in Iraq more clearly. That’s quite an accomplishment and makes this the best book you’re likely to read for some time. Grade: A+”
\n\u2013 BrothersJudd.com<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“One of the most important books of the last several years. This book is a must for anyone interested in either the Vietnam War, or in American security policy in general.”
\n\u2013 George Mellinger,\u00a0Old War Dogs<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Mark Moyar has joined the company of a select group of serious war scholars, including Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp, Colonel Harry Summers, and Colonel H. R. McMaster, who have provided fact- and logic-based analyses of the Vietnam War.”
\n\u2013 Thomas Snodgrass,\u00a0The Conservative Voice<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“If you are beginning to think, as I do, that history is the story of a succession of wars and their aftermath, then you will want to read\u00a0Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965<\/em>\u00a0by Mark Moyar…. In the end, Moyar concludes that the intervention was based on sound assumptions and strategy. It\u2019s a good thing history is written looking into the mirror of the past as we all drive toward the future. It helps us understand why not all wars are bad or wrong.”
\n\u2013 Alan Caruba,\u00a0Bookviews<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“impressive… a searing indictment of American decision making at the White House, State Department, and an American press which seemed determined to undermine their nation’s efforts at preventing South Vietnam’s collapse.”
\n\u2013 Steven Martinovitch,\u00a0Enter Stage Right<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“[Moyar] goes to great lengths to stress Uncle Ho’s communist ties and ideals, and he turns the father of his country idea on its ear, making a case that South Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, not Ho, was the George Washington of Vietnam….\u00a0His fiercely argued book covering the early years of American involvement in the war is a salvo against what he calls the\u00a0‘orthodox school’ of Vietnam war historians….\u00a0Moyar marshals a good deal of evidence to make his points.”
\n\u2013 Marc Leepson,\u00a0VVA Veteran<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The book, advertised as overturning orthodox opinion on the war, gets blurbs by a host of bigshots ranging from Max Boot to James Webb.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Glenn Reynolds,\u00a0Instapundit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“A revisionist history that challenges the notion that U.S. involvement in Vietnam was misguided; defends the validity of the domino theory and disputes the notion that Ho Chi Minh was, at heart, a nationalist who would eventually turn against his Communist Chinese allies.”
\n\u2013 Chronicle of Higher Education<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Cambridge University Press, October 2006 “a stunning performance” \u2013 James M. Murphy,\u00a0The Times Literary Supplement “one of the most important books ever written on the Vietnam War” \u2013 Mackubin Thomas Owens,\u00a0The Weekly Standard “groundbreaking”…
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