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Papers on the War Paperback – 18 Dec. 2009

English edition by Daniel Ellsberg (auteur)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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In his second public contribution to ending the American intervention in Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg brings together and revises his papers that best explain US policy and strategies during the war.

Drawing upon his virtually unique range of experience as a participant, field observer, analyst, and critic, Papers on the War shares a selection of Daniel Ellsberg's writings as he critiques the presence of US policies in Vietnam.

With the major contribution of a greatly expanded and redefined version of his crucial study "The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine," Ellsberg reveals consistent patterns of decision-making with respect to Indo-china that ran from Truman's Administration into Nixon's.

From the first participant permitted to make use of the entire study that led to the Pentagon Papers, this book shares analysis on the invasion of Laos, the internal policies of South Vietnam, the failure of rural pacification, the American way of war, and the renewed escalation in the spring of 1972.

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  1. Print length
    312 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Simon & Schuster
  4. Publication date
    18 Dec. 2009
  5. Dimensions
    21.6 x 14 x 1.66 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1439193762
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1439193761
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About the Author

Daniel Ellsberg is a lecturer, scholar, writer, and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions, and the urgent need for patriotic whistleblowing. In 1971, he photocopied a 7,000 page top secret study, a document which would later become known as the Pentagon Papers, and turned it over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ellsberg is author of four books, including The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War and Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachuetts ­- Amherst, a Distinguished Researcher at UMass Amherst's W.E.B. Du Bois Library, and a Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster (18 Dec. 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439193762
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439193761
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.6 x 14 x 1.66 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Mr. Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars but a paints a good picture of the decisions made by US officials relating ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2018
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I have not completed the book yet, but a paints a good picture of the decisions made by US officials relating to the Vietnam war. A lot of facts to take in. You need a few good hours to sit down and read. Not because it is difficult, but because level of details surrounding the decisions made by US officials.

Update 18/03/2018: I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know about the decision making by the US in relation to the Vietnam War.
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deeptrax
5.0 out of 5 stars Great companion book
Reviewed in the United States on 19 January 2014
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I actually ordered this book, "Papers on the War", by mistake, but I do not regret it. I intended to order Ellsberg's "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers".

I recommend to get the two books together. "Papers on the War" is sort of an executive summary of the most important and representative of the 7000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, which is of course the Top Secret report on the history of the Vietnam Wars from 1945 - 1968, commissioned by Robert S. McNamara.

"Secrets: A Memoir..." reads like a history book and a political thriller, and traces Mr. Ellsberg's very personal journey from being a US Marine, to working for the Rand Corporation privately researching the Vietnam situation for the Defense Department, and then actually working for various government officials who reported directly to the President on Vietnam. He recreates his horror at concluding how his superiors (and he himself) knew the futility of the war effort, yet did not know how to extricate our country from the war, and continuously lied to the American people. Becoming a voice for the anti-war movement, he takes us through the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections, Watergate and the fall of Nixon.

"Secrets: A Memoir..." is a primer on how power corrupts. It is also an important history of what may be the most important era in modern US history. Lessons abound for today.

"Papers on the War" is a great companion book, and can be used as reference and footnotes to the "Secret..."
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Rl
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on 27 April 2019
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a good book. read it and the pentagon papers also.
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Don Bagley
5.0 out of 5 stars I betrayed my country.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2018
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He was the start of the rot.
Any other country would have locked this man away in prison
for a life time.
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