Philosophy of Religion 5th Edition

Michael Peterson

Oxford University Press, USA

Science, Evolution, and Religion

Michael Ruse

Oxford University Press Academic US

A Time of War

In the months before the Tet Offensive, seasoned diplomat Bradley Marshall travels to Vietnam to bring back critical information that will empower the United States president and end the conflict. Reissue.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Pocket

A TIME OF WAR

A Time of War [Apr 01, 1991] Michael Peterson ...

The realities of a futile campaign are portrayed in this novel of the Vietnam War. The action ranges from the White House to the jungle, from the American Embassy in Saigon to the front lines. Michael Peterson has also written "The Immortal Dragon".

Mandarin

The realities of a futile campaign are portrayed in this novel of the Vietnam War. The action ranges from the White House to the jungle, from the American Embassy in Saigon to the front lines. Michael Peterson has also written "The Immortal Dragon".If you're looking for a Vietnam War novel, but you don't want to wade in too deep, this is perfect lightweight fare. Think of it as a cross between Tom Clancy and Graham Greene (see Orrin's review of The Quiet American)–with the civil servant as superhero trying to navigate a moral cesspool. Bradley Lawrence Marshall is the blue blood, war hero, diplomat who is sent to Vietnam as the personal emissary of President Johnson, to find a way out. In country, he meets with real figures like General Westmoreland, who tries to convince him everything is copacetic. But he also meets folks like: his driver, Corporal Mead, a decent though violent American lad of ambiguous sexuality, who is sick of the war; Lacouture, a flamboyant, Guy Burgess-like, Frenchman who sells information to all sides and loves Mead; and the insidious CIA station chief, Wilson Abbot Lord, who lives to fight the Communists and, fearing that Marshall will end the war, plots to kill him. And it's all set against the backdrop of the Tet Offensive.The whole premise, of Johnson and a bureaucrat secretly planning an exit strategy, doesn't withstand much scrutiny and the stereotypes and clichés run rampant. But taken on its own terms, as a sort of politico-military potboiler with only mild pretensions of addressing issues in any serious way, it succeeds pretty well. It's certainly a more diverting read than many of the more critically acclaimed novels of the war.

A Time Of War

History

World

Pyramid Press

Desperate for a way out of war, President Johnson appoints Bradley Marshall, a seasoned diplomat and veteran of two wars as his Special Ambassador to Vietnam. Marshall's mission is to bring back the critical information LBJ needs to override Gen. Westmoreland and his advisors and begin withdrawing American troops. But the CIA senior agent at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon thinks the president has made a huge blunder; he sees Marshall as an extremely dangerous man. And he has found an unwitting pawn in a war-scarred Marine fresh from the blood and death of Quang Tri province. Now, in the midst of one of the century's most horrific battles, another clandestine war is taking shape. One that can catastrophic consequences for Vietnam -- and America.

Contemporary

Stealth Pr

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