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PAPERS ON WAR Hardcover – 25 July 1972

English edition by Daniel ellsberg (auteur)
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    English
  2. Publisher
    Simon & Schuster
  3. Publication date
    25 July 1972
  4. ISBN-10
    0671211854
  5. ISBN-13
    978-0671211851
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster (25 July 1972)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671211854
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671211851
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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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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