A topic always hot and of great interest.

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Miniaturas JM

The Battle for Laos represents a major contribution to the historiography of the post-World War II conflict in Indochina. What distinguishes Emerson’s work from others on Laos is the granularity with which he presents each major combat engagement, supplemented with maps and photographs of combat units, and of transport and combat aircraft. As has been the case in his other works on Vietnam, Emerson changes his prose in describing military engagements, employing shorter sentences that tend to quicken the pace of the action and heighten the accompanying tension, making the reader an eyewitness to whatever unfolds. It is, a sad story by any measure, but documented and recounted by a writer steeped in his craft, with a gift to keeping his reader interested enough to keep the pages turning.

Professor Chaitram Singh, Berry College

The Cold War series is developing into a unique and insightful study of a long and bitter conflict that was far from Cold in many parts of the Globe. This edition looks closely at the Battle For Laos and features many rare images through the body of the book and in a full colour photo-plate section – Very Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

For the Gamer/Modeller/Military enthusiast, for whom I think book/series was created- its a real boon. If you want to understand a Vietnam side theatre better- this is a great resource for it. There's a good bibliography if you want to go deeper- but for those who just want to be able to play/model a bit more than the central Vietnam story- this is a great entree. And as I said before the Colour picture are really good for the modeller with nice shots of the key types. A straight recommendation for the Vietnam era reader.

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GoodReads, Martin

The story of entire communities and generations caught up in a war seemingly without an end.

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