Willbanks (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College) presents a selection of 24 essays on the Vietnam War published in key scholarly journals between 1985 and 2004. The collection provides a number of representations on the current state of scholarship on the war and its aftermath, and demonstrates that the Vietnam War remains a controversial issue even today, 30-plus years after the fall of Saigon. The essays are grouped into five sections addressing U.S. presidents and the Vietnam War, the conduct of the war in the field, the Tet Offensive and the Khe Sanh, a retrospective on the war and its meaning, and the legacies and lessons of the Vietnam War. Indexed by name only; no subject index. Annotation #169;2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.