Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos - Softcover

Warner, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883642361 ISBN 13: 9781883642365

Publisher: STEERFORTH PRESS, 1997

Synopsis

In Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner chronicles a covert operation that used Hmong villagers as guerrilla fighters against the North during the Vietnamese War. Thought to be an expendable resource by Central Intelligence Agency strategists, the Hmong died by the thousands fighting the North Vietnamese. Those who survived were abandoned to their fate when the United States pulled out of the war. Warner's history is the moving and tragic story of how America's 'secret war' devastated its own allies in Southeast Asia.

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Review:

.".. A terrific book. Much of it reads like a wild, imaginative adventure novel. That the story is true and only now coming fully to light makes it all that much more amazing. It can only add to our understanding of how strong men and their convictions and their daring so often lead to calamity, especially for those who believe in and follow them." -- "The Los Angeles Times"

"With the publication of "Shooting at the Moon", Roger Warner emerges as the first significant war historian of the post-Vietnam generation." -- "The Nation
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"This is a book about the war in the mountains of Laos between 1961 and 1973. It is not the first, but it is certainly the best." -- "Journal of Asian Studies"

"Better than fiction..." -- "Houston Chronicle"" "

..". A terrific book. Much of it reads like a wild, imaginative adventure novel. That the story is true and only now coming fully to light makes it all that much more amazing. It can only add to our understanding of how strong men and their convictions and their daring so often lead to calamity, especially for those who believe in and follow them." -- The Los Angeles Times
"With the publication of Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner emerges as the first significant war historian of the post-Vietnam generation." -- The Nation

"This is a book about the war in the mountains of Laos between 1961 and 1973. It is not the first, but it is certainly the best." -- Journal of Asian Studies
"Better than fiction..." -- Houston Chronicle"

About the Author:

ROGER WARNER is also the author of Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey. He has traveled often in Southeast Asia and now lives on the Massachusetts coast with his wife and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: STEERFORTH PRESS
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1883642361
• ISBN 13: 9781883642365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436