LEWIS SORLEY - Westmoreland

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Adult Event

Start: 01/30/2012 7:00 pm

United States Military Academy Graduate
& Noted Vietnam Historian
LEWIS SORLEY
will speak & sign his new biography,
Westmoreland:
The General Who Lost Vietnam.

In this definitive new biography, leading military Vietnam historian Lewis Sorley asks the question: Is General William Westmoreland the real reason the Vietnam War was lost? How did he get there, why did he fail, and how did he last so long?

An Eagle Scout at fifteen, First Captain of his West Point class, Westmoreland fought in World War II and Korea, rising rapidly to command the 101st Airborne Division and become Superintendent at West Point, then was chosen to lead the war effort in Vietnam. He failed to understand a complex war, choosing a flawed strategy, sticking to it in the face of all opposition, and misrepresenting the results when truth mattered most. In so doing he squandered four years of support by Congress, much of the media, and the American people.

Lewis Sorley is a third-generation graduate of the United States Military Academy who also holds a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. He served in Vietnam, and in the Pentagon in the offices of Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and Army Chief of Staff General William C. Westmoreland. He also taught at West Point and the Army War College. He is the author of five highly-regarded works of military history.

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