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Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited (Companion)
by Wiest, Andrew
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 184603020X
- ISBN 13
- 9781846030208
- Seller
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West Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Osprey Publishing, 2006-09-26. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 184603020X 1st Edition/1st Printing. Good condition- boards are clean, has a good binding, light wear to dust jacket with rubbing to edges, pages are clean and crisp, no marks or notations. lz
Synopsis
Dr Andrew Wiest is Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. After attending the University of Southern Mississippi for his undergraduate and masters degrees, Dr Wiest went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1990. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, he has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 Dr Wiest has been active in international education, developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program. A widely published author, Wiest's titles include Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (New York University), which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award; America and the Vietnam War (Routledge); Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land (Osprey); and Passchendaele and the Royal Navy (Greenwood Press). Additionally Dr Wiest has appeared in and consulted on several historical documentaries for the History Channel, Granada Television, PBS, the BBC, and for Lucasfilm. Wiest lives in Hattiesburg with his wife Jill and their three children Abigail, Luke and Wyatt. The author lives in Hattiesburg, MS.
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- Bookseller
- Ed's Editions Bookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1024604
- Title
- Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited (Companion)
- Author
- Wiest, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 184603020X
- ISBN 13
- 9781846030208
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2006-09-26
- X weight
- 49 oz
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